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.
JAMES MADISONThe essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
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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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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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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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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.
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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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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 capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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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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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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