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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.

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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
JAMES MADISON

Better Circulation Confidence Money
The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
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Abuse Essence Government Hand Human Liable Lodge Must Power
In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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Church Guardian Instance Liberation People
Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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Ambition Counteract Made
Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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Body Bondage Debilitate Enterprise Every Expand Mind Nobel People Religious Shackle Unfit
As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
JAMES MADISON

Continue Excercise Fallible Hope Liberty Long Reason
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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Charge Danger Home Liberty Loss Provision Rank Truth Universal
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.
JAMES MADISON

Affair Calculate Loss Nation Neighbor Stability Sustain Systematic Wisdom
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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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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Advantage Diffusion Guardian Knowledge Liberty Only True
A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
JAMES MADISON

Free Instructed People Permanent Well
If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.
JAMES MADISON

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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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Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.
JAMES MADISON

Darkness Exist Firmament Light Many Now Political
There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.
JAMES MADISON

Elucidation Liable Maxim Misappled More Need Opinion Therefore
Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
JAMES MADISON

Abuse Endangered Liberty Power

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