No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
JAMES MADISONThe advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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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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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
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The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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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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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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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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Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.
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Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
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