Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
JAMES MADISONEach 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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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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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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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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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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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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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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A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
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The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.
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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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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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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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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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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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