If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
JAMES MADISONA man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
More James Madison Quotes
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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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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
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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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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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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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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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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.
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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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Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.
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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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