Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
JAMES MADISONPhilosophy is common sense with big words.
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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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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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
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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 rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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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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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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