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.
JAMES MADISONAmerica was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.
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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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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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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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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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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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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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Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.
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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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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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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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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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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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