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.
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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I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.
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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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To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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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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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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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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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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War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
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The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.
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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.
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