In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
JAMES MADISONA well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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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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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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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 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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A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
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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 essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
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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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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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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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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.
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A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
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