The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
JAMES MADISONAny 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.
More James Madison Quotes
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I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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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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A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
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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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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 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 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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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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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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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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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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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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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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