The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
JAMES MADISONEvery 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 well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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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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I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
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A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
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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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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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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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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 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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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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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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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.
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Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
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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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