As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
JAMES MADISONThe 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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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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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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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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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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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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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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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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Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.
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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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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
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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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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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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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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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The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.
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I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.
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