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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

~ James Madison

James Madison Government Without Purity

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

~ James Madison

James Madison Together Past Government

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

~ James Madison

James Madison Journey World Me

A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.

~ James Madison

James Madison Body Free People

Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.

~ James Madison

James Madison Liberty Abuse Of Power May

The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.

~ James Madison

James Madison Government People Fountain

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

~ James Madison

James Madison Men Degree Certain

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

~ James Madison

James Madison Freedom Believe People

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

~ James Madison

James Madison Man Opinions Person

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

~ James Madison

James Madison Truth Men Truth Is

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

James Madison Home Freedom Loss

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.

~ James Madison

James Madison Constitution People Nation

Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

~ James Madison

James Madison People Right Citizens

The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.

~ James Madison

James Madison Property Rights Protection

A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.

~ James Madison

James Madison Society Democracy Small

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

James Madison Information Tragedy

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

James Madison Parents Youth Talents

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.

~ James Madison

James Madison Loss Want Neighbors

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

James Madison War Government Security

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.

~ James Madison

James Madison Choice People Laws

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

~ James Madison

James Madison Tyranny Become Danger

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

~ James Madison

James Madison Free People Permanently

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.

~ James Madison

James Madison Humanity World Oppression
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