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.
JAMES MADISONThe protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
More James Madison Quotes
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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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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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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 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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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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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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Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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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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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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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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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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