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"What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their natural and surest support." -
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James Madison
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"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?"
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