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.
JAMES MADISONAnd 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.
More James Madison Quotes
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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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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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
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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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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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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
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War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.
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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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Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
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