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.
JAMES MADISONThe rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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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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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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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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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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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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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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A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution.
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.
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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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What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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