Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
JAMES MADISONBy 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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What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?
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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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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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The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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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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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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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.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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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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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
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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 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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