The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
JAMES MADISONOf 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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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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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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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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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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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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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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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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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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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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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty 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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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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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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