Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
JAMES MADISONAmerica was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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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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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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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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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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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 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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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
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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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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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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 truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
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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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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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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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And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
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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.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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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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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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All 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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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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