In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
JAMES MADISONA 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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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.
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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.
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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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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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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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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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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.
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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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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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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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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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