“To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.”
James Madison
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“The Civil rights of none shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established, nor shall the full and equal rights of conscience be in any manner, or on any pretext, be infringed.”
James Madison
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“That diabolical Hell conceived principle of persecution rages among some [people] and to their eternal Infamy the clergy can furnish their Quota of Imps for such business.”
James Madison
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“It is to the press mankind are indebted for having dispelled the clouds which so long encompassed religion, for disclosing her genuine lustre, and disseminating her salutary doctrines.”
James Madison
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“[Religious establishment] is adverse to the diffusion of the light of Christianity … [because] with an ignoble and unchristian timidity it would [be] circumscribed, with a wall of defence, against the encroachments of error.”
James Madison
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“[The human mind] finds more facility in assenting to the self-existence of an invisible cause possessing infinite power, wisdom, and goodness, than in the self-existence of the universe, visibly destitute of these attributes, and which may be the effect of them.”
James Madison
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“Religion, or the duty which we owe our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force and violence; and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience.”
James Madison
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“[Christianity] existed and flourishes, not only without the support of human laws, but in spite of every opposition from them.”
James Madison
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“It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties…. Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other sects?”
James Madison
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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.”
James Madison
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“Is a Bill of Rights a security for [religious liberty]? If there were but one sect in America, a Bill of Rights would be a small protection for liberty…. Freedom derives from a multiplicity of sects, which pervade America, and which is the best and only security for religious liberty in any society. For where there is such a variety of sects, there cannot be a majority of any one sect to oppress and persecute the rest.”
James Madison
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“Pray for the Liberty of the Conscience to revive among us…. Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprize, every expanded prospect.”
James Madison
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“No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.”
James Madison
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“Nor is any evidence to be found, either in History or Human Nature, that nations are to be bribed out of a spirit of encroachment and aggression, by humiliations which nourish their pride, or by concessions that extend their resources and power.”
James Madison
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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.”
James Madison
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“Of all the enemies of public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded.”
James Madison
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“War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.”
James Madison
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“Testimony of all ages forces us to admit that war is among the most dangerous enemies to liberty, and that the executive is the branch most favored by it of all the branches of Power.”
James Madison
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“A government deriving its energy from the will of the society, and operating, by the reason of its measures, on the understanding and interest of the society … is the government for which philosophy has been searching and humanity been fighting from the most remote ages … which it is the glory of America to have invented, and her unrivalled happiness to possess.”
James Madison
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“In the extent and proper structure of the Union, therefore, we behold a republican remedy for the diseases most incident to republican government.”
James Madison
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