The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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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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 internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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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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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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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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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.
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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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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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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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