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.
JAMES MADISONA well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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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 capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.
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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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To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
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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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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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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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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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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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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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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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