The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
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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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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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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Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
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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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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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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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As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
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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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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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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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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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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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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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By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.
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