The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been … - James Madison

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Stomach: A slave that must accept everything that is given to it, but which avenges wrongs as slyly as does the slave.

James Madison

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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It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

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But the mild voice of reason, pleading the cause of an enlarged and permanent interest, is but too often drowned, before public bodies as well as individuals, by the clamors of an impatient avidity for immediate and immoderate gain.

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Our country, if it does justice to itself, will be the workshop of liberty to the civilized world.

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That is not a just government, nor is property secure under it, where the property which a man has in his personal safety and personal liberty, is violated by arbitrary seizures of one class of citizens for the service of the rest.

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Good conscience is the most valuable asset of all!

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People must not be forced to adopt me as their favourite author, even for their own good.

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