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.
JAMES MADISONKnowledge 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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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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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
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As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
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The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.
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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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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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Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.
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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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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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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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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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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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