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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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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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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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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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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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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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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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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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A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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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 contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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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 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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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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