The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests.
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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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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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 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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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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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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It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
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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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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
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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 advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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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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