What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?
JAMES MADISONReligion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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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 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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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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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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Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.
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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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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
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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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The protection of these faculties is the first object 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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It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
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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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