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.
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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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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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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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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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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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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They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public 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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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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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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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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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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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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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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War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.
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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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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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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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Americans have the right and advantage of being armed – unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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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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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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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 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 personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.
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