Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
JAMES MADISONThe 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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As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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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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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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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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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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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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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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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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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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