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.
JAMES MADISONIf we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.
More James Madison Quotes
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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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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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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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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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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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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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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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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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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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