The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
JAMES MADISONReligion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
More James Madison Quotes
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The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
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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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The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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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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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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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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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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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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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
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A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
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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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What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?
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