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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.

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A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
JAMES MADISON

Cooperation Political Promotion Reconstruction Sincere Steadfast System
The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
JAMES MADISON

Advantage Diffusion Guardian Knowledge Liberty Only True
A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
JAMES MADISON

Communication Free Man Opinion Property
All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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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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

Bear Burden Each Generation Made Own War
If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
JAMES MADISON

Angel Government Men Necessary
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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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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Aid Flourish Government Greater Purity Religion
Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
JAMES MADISON

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

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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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All Men Mistrust Ought Power Truth
Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
JAMES MADISON

Ambition Counteract Made
Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
JAMES MADISON

Favourite Free Institution Learn Object Ought People
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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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.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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Government Human Itself Nature Reflection
The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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Bless Effect Internal Itself Liberty Mutable Policy
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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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.
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The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests.
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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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
JAMES MADISON

Abuse Endangered Liberty Power
I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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Abolition Capital Entire Fair Punishment Regret Trail
They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
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