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.
JAMES MADISONUnion of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
More James Madison Quotes
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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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I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution.
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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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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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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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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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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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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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Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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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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