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 MADISONThe 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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Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
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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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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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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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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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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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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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Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
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What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?
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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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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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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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