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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?

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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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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.
JAMES MADISON

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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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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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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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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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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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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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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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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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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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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.
JAMES MADISON

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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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