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?
JAMES MADISONThe protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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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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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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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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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
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To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
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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 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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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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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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Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.
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