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.
JAMES MADISONThat part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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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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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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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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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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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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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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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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To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
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