America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
JAMES MADISONWhenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.
More James Madison Quotes
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As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution.
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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 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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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 protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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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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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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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.
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The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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