America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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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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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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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 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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And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
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A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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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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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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