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.
JAMES MADISONThe internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
More James Madison Quotes
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
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The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
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It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
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They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
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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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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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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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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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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
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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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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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A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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