The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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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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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
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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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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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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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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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