In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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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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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Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.
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Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
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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 personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.
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I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.
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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
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Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.
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