By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.
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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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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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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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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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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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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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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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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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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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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