Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
JAMES MADISONAmericans 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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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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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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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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Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
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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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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
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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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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
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The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
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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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The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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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 circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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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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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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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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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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