The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
JAMES MADISONPhilosophy is common sense with big words.
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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 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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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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Americans have the right and advantage of being armed – unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.
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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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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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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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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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The protection of these faculties is the first object 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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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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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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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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