Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
JAMES MADISONThe 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 man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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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 diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests.
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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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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 advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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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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If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.
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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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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 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 means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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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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