A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
JAMES MADISONThe advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
More James Madison Quotes
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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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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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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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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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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
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The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests.
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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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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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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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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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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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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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