Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.
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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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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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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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.
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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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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
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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.
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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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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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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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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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