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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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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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.
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Cherish Labor Luxury Other Pride Property Render Vanity
And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
JAMES MADISON

Done Doubt Every Example Less Mix New Past Religion Succeed Together
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

Forever Govern Governor Knowledge Mean Own People Power Themselves
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

Administered Control Enable First Frame Government Men Over
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

Authority Declare Fruit Government Real Support Treasure
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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Danger Extensive Federal Government Important Most Operation Time War
I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
JAMES MADISON

Abridgement Believe Encroachment Freedom Gradual Instance More People Silent
The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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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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Acquire Farce Government Information Mean Popular Prologue Tragedy
A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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Angel Government Men Necessary
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

Elucidation Liable Maxim Misappled More Need Opinion Therefore
The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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Against Danger Defense Foreign Historical Home Instrument Mean Tyranny

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