Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
JAMES MADISONThe advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
More James Madison Quotes
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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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?
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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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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
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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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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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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 number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.
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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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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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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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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.
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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