Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
JAMES MADISONA man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
More James Madison Quotes
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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
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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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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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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
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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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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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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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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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