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James Madison


American
March 16, 1751
President
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.


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In no instance have... the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.


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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.


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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.


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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.


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The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.


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The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad.
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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.
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To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
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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.
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As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
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Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
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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.
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Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
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Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.
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I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution.
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Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.
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To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
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War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.
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