All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.
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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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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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.
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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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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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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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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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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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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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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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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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