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 MADISONUnion of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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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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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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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 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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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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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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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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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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I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.
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The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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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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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.
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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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