If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
JAMES MADISONThe 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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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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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.
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Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
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Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.
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It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests.
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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 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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Americans have the right and advantage of being armed – unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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