James Madison

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

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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect. ↗

— James Madison

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The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right. ↗

— James Madison

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

— James Madison

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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence. ↗

— James Madison

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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. ↗

— James Madison

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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment. ↗

— James Madison

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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. ↗

— James Madison

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

— James Madison

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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself. ↗

— James Madison

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