Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
JAMES MADISONAny reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.
More James Madison Quotes
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.
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Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
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All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.
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Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
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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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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
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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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The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests.
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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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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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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.
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