That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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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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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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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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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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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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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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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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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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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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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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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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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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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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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