The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
JAMES MADISONReligion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests.
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Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
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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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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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Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
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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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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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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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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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By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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