The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
JAMES MADISONThe people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.
More James Madison Quotes
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
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It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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Americans have the right and advantage of being armed – unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.
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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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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.
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I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.
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