The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
JAMES MADISONUnion of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
More James Madison Quotes
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.
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War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.
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The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
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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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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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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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Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.
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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
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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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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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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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