The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
JAMES MADISONAmbition must be made to counteract ambition.
More James Madison Quotes
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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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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The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.
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If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.
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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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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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Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.
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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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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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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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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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