The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
JAMES MADISONWhenever 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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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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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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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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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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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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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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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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They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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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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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
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