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.
JAMES MADISONThe 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 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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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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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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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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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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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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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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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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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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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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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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