Philosophy is common sense with big words.
James MadisonTags: philosophy
The means of defence agst. foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.
James MadisonTags: war tyranny oppression patriot-act
Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits
it for every noble enterprize, every expanded prospect.
A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
James MadisonTags: freedom constitution bill-of-rights right-to-bear-arms second-amendment
Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind, and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
[Letter to William Bradford Jr. April 1 1774]
The advancement of science and the diffusion of information [is] the best aliment to true liberty.
James MadisonTags: science intelligence liberty education knowledge freedom media
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.
James MadisonNo nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
James MadisonTags: political
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives. 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 MadisonThe truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
James MadisonTags: scope-of-government checks-and-balances
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