America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
JAMES MADISONThe 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.
More James Madison Quotes
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It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
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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 circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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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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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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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.
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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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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
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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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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.
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