The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.
JAMES MADISONEach generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
More James Madison Quotes
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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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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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.
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It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.
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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 circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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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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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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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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