That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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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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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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.
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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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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every 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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Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
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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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There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.
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It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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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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