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.
JAMES MADISONThe 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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Americans have the right and advantage of being armed – unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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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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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
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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.
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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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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What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?
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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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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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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 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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In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
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