No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
JAMES MADISONThe 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.
More James Madison Quotes
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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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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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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 truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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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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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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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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The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.
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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 advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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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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A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
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