The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
JAMES MADISON
The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
More James Madison Quotes
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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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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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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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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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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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.
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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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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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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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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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The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.
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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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