A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
JAMES MADISONIf 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.
More James Madison Quotes
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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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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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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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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.
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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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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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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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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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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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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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