The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty. – James Madison
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
As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights. – James Madison
The happy Union of these States is a wonder their Constitution a miracle their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world. – James Madison
To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population. – Thomas B. Macaulay