In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
JAMES MADISONThe circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
More James Madison Quotes
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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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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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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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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 rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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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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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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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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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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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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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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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 essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
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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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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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