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.
JAMES MADISONThe protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
More James Madison Quotes
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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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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The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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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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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
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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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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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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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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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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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Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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