We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
JAMES MADISONThe happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
More James Madison Quotes
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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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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If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.
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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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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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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 internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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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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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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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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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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