Americans have the right and advantage of being armed – unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
JAMES MADISONThe 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.
More James Madison Quotes
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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
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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 means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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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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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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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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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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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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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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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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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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