I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution.
JAMES MADISONReligious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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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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Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
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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.
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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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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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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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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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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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