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.
JAMES MADISONIt 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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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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The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.
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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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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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The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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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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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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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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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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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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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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