The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.
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 operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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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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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.
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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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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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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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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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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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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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