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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

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The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.
JAMES MADISON

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The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.
JAMES MADISON

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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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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.
JAMES MADISON

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The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
JAMES MADISON

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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
JAMES MADISON

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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?
JAMES MADISON

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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.
JAMES MADISON

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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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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.
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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.
JAMES MADISON

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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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.
JAMES MADISON

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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
JAMES MADISON

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