Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
JAMES MADISONA 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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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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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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It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
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To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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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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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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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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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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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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