Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
JAMES MADISONAs 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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What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?
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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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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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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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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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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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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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As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
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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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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
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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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