Philosophy is common sense with big words.
JAMES MADISONA well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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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Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
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The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.
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A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
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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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Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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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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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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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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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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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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The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
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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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