Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
JAMES MADISONThe circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
More James Madison Quotes
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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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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The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests.
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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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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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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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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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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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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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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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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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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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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.
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