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.
JAMES MADISONThe circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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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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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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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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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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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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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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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 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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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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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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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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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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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
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