Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
JAMES MADISONReligion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
More James Madison Quotes
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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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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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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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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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In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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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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To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
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The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests.
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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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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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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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