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"The purpose of the separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe in blood for centuries."
"The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty."
"If men were angels, no government would be necessary."
"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives."
"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."
"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."
"The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined."
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"The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money."
"The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world."
"Equal laws protecting equal rights… the best guarantee of loyalty & attachment to the Country."
"In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself."
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations."
"The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse."
"Philosophy is common sense with big words."
"As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights."
"Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations."
"Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other."
"The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy. They are more: they are the best basis of public liberty, and the truest guardians of public order."
"War is the greatest enemy and destroyer of liberty."
"The capacity of the female mind has been underrated."
"No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare."
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"I should consider myself guilty of an unpardonable abuse of confidence if I did not say, that as far as I can judge from the publications that have appeared, the new Constitution is almost universally rejected. "
"It is a just observation that the people commonly intend the Public Good."
"Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government."
"It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties."
