Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
JAMES MADISONThe internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.
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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.
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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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If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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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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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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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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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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I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution.
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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