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.
JAMES MADISONI 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.
More James Madison Quotes
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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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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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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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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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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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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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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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Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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