If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

JAMES MADISON

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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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It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

JAMES MADISON

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
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Amde Avail Own
Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.

JAMES MADISON

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
JAMES MADISON

Counteract Made
The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.

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

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The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.

JAMES MADISON

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.
JAMES MADISON

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The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

JAMES MADISON

The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
JAMES MADISON

Faculty First Object Protection
Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.

JAMES MADISON

Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.
JAMES MADISON

Firmament Many Now Political
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

As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.

JAMES MADISON

America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
JAMES MADISON

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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.

JAMES MADISON

Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
JAMES MADISON

Each Made Own
As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.

JAMES MADISON

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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Excercise Fallible Long
The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.

JAMES MADISON

The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.
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Extensive Federal Most Operation
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.

JAMES MADISON

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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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.

JAMES MADISON

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.
JAMES MADISON

Proprietor Accept Concur Entire Resort
Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.

JAMES MADISON

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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Bondage Debilitate Enterprise Every Expand Nobel Religious Shackle Unfit
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

JAMES MADISON

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
JAMES MADISON

Govern Governor Mean Own Themselves
In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.

JAMES MADISON

In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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