The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
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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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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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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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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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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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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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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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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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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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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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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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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Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
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A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
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The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.
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