In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the 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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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 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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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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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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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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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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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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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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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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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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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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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
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