The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
JAMES MADISONWar contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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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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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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It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a 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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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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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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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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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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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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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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