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 MADISONI should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
More James Madison Quotes
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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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Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
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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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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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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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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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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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A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
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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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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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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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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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A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
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