Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
JAMES MADISONThe means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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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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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 protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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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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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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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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A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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Americans have the right and advantage of being armed – unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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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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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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I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
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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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