America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
JAMES MADISONA man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
More James Madison Quotes
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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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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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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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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 people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
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Americans have the right and advantage of being armed – unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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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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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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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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