What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?
JAMES MADISONThe happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
More James Madison Quotes
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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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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 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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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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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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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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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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I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
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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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Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.
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