What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?
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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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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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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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.
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It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
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A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
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To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
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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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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.
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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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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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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.
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