If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
JAMES MADISONThe protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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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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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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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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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 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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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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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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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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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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