All James Madison Quotes
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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The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.
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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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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
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In no instance have... the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
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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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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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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.
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Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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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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