The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
JAMES MADISONThe circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
More James Madison Quotes
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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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.
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The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.
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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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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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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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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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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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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
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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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The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.
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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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The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.
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