The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
JAMES MADISONAs long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
More James Madison Quotes
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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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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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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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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The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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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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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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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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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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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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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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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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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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