Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
JAMES MADISONUnion of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
More James Madison Quotes
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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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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Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.
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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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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 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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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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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
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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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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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