Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
JAMES MADISONA pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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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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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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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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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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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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It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
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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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I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.
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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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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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