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.
JAMES MADISONThe executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
More James Madison Quotes
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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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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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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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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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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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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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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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 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 protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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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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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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