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We've staked our future on our ability to follow the Ten Commandments with all our heart.

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James Madison
Age: 85 †
Born: 1751
Born: March 16
Died: 1836
Died: June 28
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence, and ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption all of which facilitate the execution of mischievous projects.
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The nation which reposes on the pillow of political confidence, will sooner or later end its political existence in a deadly lethargy.
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The governments of Europe are afraid to trust the people with arms. If they did, the people would certainly shake off the yoke of tyranny, as America did.
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A victorious and powerful ally is but another name for a master.
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The settled opinion here is that religion is essentially distinct from Civil Govt. and exempt from its cognizance that a connection between them is injurious to both.
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If slavery, as a national evil, is to be abolished, and it be just that it be done at the national expense, the amount of the expense is not a paramount consideration.
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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. As long as the connection subsists between his reason and his self-love, his opinions and passions will have a reciprocal influence on each other, and the former will be objects to which the latter attach themselves.
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[In a democracy] a common passion or interest will, in almost every case , be felt by a majority of the whole a communication and concert results from the form of government itself and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party or an obnoxious individual.
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The American people owe it to themselves, and to the cause of free Government, to prove by their establishments for the advancement and diffusion of knowledge, that their political Institutionsare as favorable to the intellectual and moral improvement of Man as they are conformable to his individual and social rights.
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I hope this will find you...enjoying the commencement of a new year with every prospect that can make it a happy one.
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The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of Government. But what is Government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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I love the summer.... the warm weather, hangin out with friends, and swimmin in the warm water..... but most importantly grabin a glove and a ball and playin some softball in the heat.
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Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.
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The security intended to the general liberty consists in the frequent election and in the rotation of the members of Congress.
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In the extent and proper structure of the Union, therefore, we behold a republican remedy for the disease incident to republican government.
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If men were angels, there would be no need of government.
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Every new and successful example of a perfect separation between ecclesiastical and civil matters is of importance.
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[Exchange] the galling burden of bachelorship for the easy yoke of matrimony.
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We look back, already, with astonishment, at the daring outrages committed by despotism, on the reason and rights of man we look forward with joy, to the period, when it shall be despoiled of all its usurpations, and bound forever in the chains, with which it had loaded its miserable victims.
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Procrastination in the beginning and precipitation towards the conclusion is the characteristic of such bodies.
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