I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
JAMES MADISONWhat spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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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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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 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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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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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.
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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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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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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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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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