A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
JAMES MADISONThe circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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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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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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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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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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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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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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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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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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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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