Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
JAMES MADISONReligion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
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To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.
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A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
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A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
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As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
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It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
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There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.
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All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.
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