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.
JAMES MADISONThe 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 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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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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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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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 means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests.
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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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And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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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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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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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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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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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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The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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