They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
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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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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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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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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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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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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I 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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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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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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I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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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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All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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