That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
JAMES MADISONAmbition must be made to counteract ambition.
More James Madison Quotes
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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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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 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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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.
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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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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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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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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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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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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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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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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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