As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
JAMES MADISONThe advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
More James Madison Quotes
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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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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 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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The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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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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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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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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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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As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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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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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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The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests.
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