The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
JAMES MADISONPhilosophy is common sense with big words.
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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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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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Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.
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To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
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What 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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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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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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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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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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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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I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution.
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
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