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 MADISONLet me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
More James Madison Quotes
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What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?
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As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
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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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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
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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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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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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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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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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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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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The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.
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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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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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