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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 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

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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
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

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In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
JAMES MADISON

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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.
JAMES MADISON

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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

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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
JAMES MADISON

Free Instructed People Permanent Well
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.
JAMES MADISON

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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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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A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
JAMES MADISON

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There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.
JAMES MADISON

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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
JAMES MADISON

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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
JAMES MADISON

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