Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
JAMES MADISONThe rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
More James Madison Quotes
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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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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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.
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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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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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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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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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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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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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