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 MADISONAll 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.
More James Madison Quotes
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A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
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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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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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Any 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.
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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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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution.
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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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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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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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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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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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