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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.

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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
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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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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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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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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 the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
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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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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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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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Free Instructed People Permanent Well
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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Favourite Free Institution Learn Object Ought People
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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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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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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Advance Agriculture Art Country Most Part Population Rapid
I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution.
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Proprietor Accept Concur Constitution Entire Resort Sense
America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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Country Immigration Indelible Prosperity Settlement
Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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Body Bondage Debilitate Enterprise Every Expand Mind Nobel People Religious Shackle Unfit
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
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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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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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Angel Government Men Necessary
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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Darkness Exist Firmament Light Many Now Political
Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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Commercial Communication Free Generally Shackles
The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
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Case Decide Declare Executive Question Right War
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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