The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
JAMES MADISONLiberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
More James Madison Quotes
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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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War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.
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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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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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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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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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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 truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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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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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.
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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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 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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