Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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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To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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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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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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It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
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By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
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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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The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests.
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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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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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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