The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
JAMES MADISONThe circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
More James Madison Quotes
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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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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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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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What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?
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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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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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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
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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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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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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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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 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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