What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
JAMES MADISONLet me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
More James Madison Quotes
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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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 purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.
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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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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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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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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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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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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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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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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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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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Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.
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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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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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