The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
JAMES MADISONThe 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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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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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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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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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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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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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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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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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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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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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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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.
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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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