There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.
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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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 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.
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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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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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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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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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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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To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
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What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.
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