The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
JAMES MADISONA well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
More James Madison Quotes
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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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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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
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In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
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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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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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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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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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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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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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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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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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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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