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 MADISONI 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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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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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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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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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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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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Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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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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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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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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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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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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They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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