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.
JAMES MADISONThe circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
More James Madison Quotes
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The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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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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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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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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War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
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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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It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
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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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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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