I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution.
JAMES MADISONAs a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
More James Madison Quotes
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As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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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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All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.
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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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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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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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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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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
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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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Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
JAMES MADISON