America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
JAMES MADISONReligion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
More James Madison Quotes
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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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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In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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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.
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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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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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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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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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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A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
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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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