What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?
JAMES MADISONDespotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.
More James Madison Quotes
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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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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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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
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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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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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There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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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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