What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?
JAMES MADISONNo nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
More James Madison Quotes
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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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Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
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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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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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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
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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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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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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
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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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