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

James Madison · Government

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James Madison

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.

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James Madison

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

Learning

James Madison

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.

Government

James Madison

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

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