In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
JAMES MADISONUnion of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
More James Madison Quotes
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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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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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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And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
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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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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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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 means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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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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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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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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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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