And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
JAMES MADISONThat part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
More James Madison Quotes
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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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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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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Despotism 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.
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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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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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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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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
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Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
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A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
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