Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
JAMES MADISONThe internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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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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War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.
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Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
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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 internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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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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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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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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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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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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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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