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.
JAMES MADISONWhere 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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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 circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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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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As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
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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.
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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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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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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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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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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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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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