Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
JAMES MADISONLearned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
More James Madison Quotes
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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution.
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In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
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Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
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The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
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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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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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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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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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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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