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" In no instance have... the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people. "
James Madison
Churches
Been
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" We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties. "
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Take
" 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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Seems
" The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. "
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" A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people. "
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" Philosophy is common sense with big words. "
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Words
" If men were angels, no government would be necessary. "
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Angels
Were
" 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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Citizens
" The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state. "
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People
Separation
" Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government. "
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Purity
Government
" Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty. "
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Best
Free
" I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment. "
James Madison
Fair
Punishment
Should
" 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. "
James Madison
Tragedy
Farce
Government
" If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. "
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Tyranny
Fighting
" To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression. "
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Humanity
World
Oppression
" The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security. "
James Madison
War
Danger
Government
" The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war. "
James Madison
War
Any
Question
" 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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Most
Liberty
Enemies
" What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? "
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Nature
Human
Human Nature
" It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad. "
James Madison
Truth
Home
Liberty
" The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. "
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Having
Men
Truth Is
" 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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Choice
Men
Own
" 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. "
James Madison
Forward
Youth
Parents
" The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home. "
James Madison
Tyranny
Against
Become
" Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done. "
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Will
Interest
Done
" The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty. "
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True
Guardian
Knowledge
" As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights. "
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Property
Said
Rights
" 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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Class
Independence
Happy
" 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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Happy
World
Constitution
" 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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You
Men
Government