Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
JAMES MADISONAmerica was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
More James Madison Quotes
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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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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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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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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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?
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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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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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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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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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