The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
JAMES MADISONThe protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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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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War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.
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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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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 truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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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 is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
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If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.
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There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.
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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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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
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The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.
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