Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
JAMES MADISONWherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
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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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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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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 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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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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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
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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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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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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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They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
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