Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
JAMES MADISONA 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.
More James Madison Quotes
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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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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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The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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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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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.
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The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
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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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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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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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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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