Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
JAMES MADISONIf Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
More James Madison Quotes
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Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
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It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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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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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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Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.
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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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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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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
JAMES MADISON