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.
JAMES MADISONCommercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
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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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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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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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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 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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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
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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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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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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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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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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
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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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