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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

James Madison

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.
JAMES MADISON

Acquire Farce Government Information Mean Popular Prologue Tragedy
No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
JAMES MADISON

Continual Freedom Midst National Preserve Warfare
The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
JAMES MADISON

Faculty First Government Object Protection
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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Arm Best Body Compose Defense Militia Most Natural People Regulated Trained
Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.
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Class Good Labour Leisure Read Species Substitute Vicious
I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.
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Abate Assume Class Doubt Found Government Misery
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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Continue Excercise Fallible Hope Liberty Long Reason
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.
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Devotion Industry Mainfrstly Morality Number People Priesthood
That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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Advance Agriculture Art Country Most Part Population Rapid
To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
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Abuse Alone Chequered Press
It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
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Amde Avail Choice Law Little Men Own
Americans 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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Advantage Arm Being Citizen Country Government People Right Trust
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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Ceaseless Church Country Dhore Forever Purpose Separation Soak Soil State Strifem
To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
JAMES MADISON

Form Government Happiness Liberty People Secure Suppose Virtue
War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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Contain Folly Hope Progress Reason Well Wickedness
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.
JAMES MADISON

Done Doubt Every Example Less Mix New Past Religion Succeed Together

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

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