"Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government."
― James Madison
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Government
― James Madison
More From James Madison
- "I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property."
- "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."
- "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."
More In Government
- "I think for the U.S. government the Sandinistas represented a threat to their dominance of Latin America."― Bianca Jagger
- "Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O’Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it."― Russell Baker
- "In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist."― Dwight D. Eisenhower