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.
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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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
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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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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
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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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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.
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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 men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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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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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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