Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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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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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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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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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Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.
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A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
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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 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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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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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 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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The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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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 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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Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.
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The 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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