Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
JAMES MADISONIn no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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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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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.
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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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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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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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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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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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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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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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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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