The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
JAMES MADISONAll 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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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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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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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 means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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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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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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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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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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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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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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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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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
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