The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.
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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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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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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I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
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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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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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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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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.
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A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
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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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Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
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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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War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.
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