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.
JAMES MADISONWhat prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?
More James Madison Quotes
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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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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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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As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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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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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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The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.
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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?
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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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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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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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