In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
JAMES MADISONWe are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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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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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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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I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution.
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The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
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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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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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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.
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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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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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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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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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