Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
JAMES MADISONA well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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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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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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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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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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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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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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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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All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.
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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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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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