As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
JAMES MADISONThe circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
More James Madison Quotes
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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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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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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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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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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I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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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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The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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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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To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
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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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