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.
JAMES MADISONIf Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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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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As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
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Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
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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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The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.
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The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests.
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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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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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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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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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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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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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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 truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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