In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
JAMES MADISONWar 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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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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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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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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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 Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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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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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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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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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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