The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
JAMES MADISONI should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
More James Madison Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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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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As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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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 is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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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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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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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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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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