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.
JAMES MADISONAmbition must be made to counteract ambition.
More James Madison Quotes
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.
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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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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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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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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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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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As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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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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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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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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