In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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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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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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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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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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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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
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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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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?
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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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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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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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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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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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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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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
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