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.
JAMES MADISONPhilosophy is common sense with big words.
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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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And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
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The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
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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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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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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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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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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 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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