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 MADISONTo 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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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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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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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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Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
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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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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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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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It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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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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