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?
JAMES MADISONThe internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
More James Madison Quotes
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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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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
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All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.
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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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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 rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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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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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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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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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.
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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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