The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
JAMES MADISONThe 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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The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.
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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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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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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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The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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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 happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
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Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
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