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.
JAMES MADISONDespotism 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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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
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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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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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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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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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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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They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
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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 rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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