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.
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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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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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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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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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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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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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.
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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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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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The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.
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Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.
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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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