Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
JAMES MADISONThe internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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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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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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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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Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.
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A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
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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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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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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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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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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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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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