The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
JAMES MADISONReligious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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Despotism 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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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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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 truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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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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Americans have the right and advantage of being armed – unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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