It 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.
JAMES MADISONThey throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
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 advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.
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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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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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What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?
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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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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 internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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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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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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I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
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