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.
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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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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The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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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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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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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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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.
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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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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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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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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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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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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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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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