The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
JAMES MADISONIt 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.
More James Madison Quotes
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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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Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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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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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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The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests.
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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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The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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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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Americans have the right and advantage of being armed – unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
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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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