A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
JAMES MADISONI 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.
More James Madison Quotes
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The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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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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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?
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If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.
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Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
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Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
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Americans have the right and advantage of being armed – unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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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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Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.
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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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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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