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“The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.”
James Madison quotes (American 4th US President (1809-17), and one of the founding fathers of his country. 1751-1836)
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“Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.”
James Madison quotes (American 4th US President (1809-17), and one of the founding fathers of his country. 1751-1836)
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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 quotes (American 4th US President (1809-17), and one of the founding fathers of his country. 1751-1836)
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“The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.”
James Madison quotes (American 4th US President (1809-17), and one of the founding fathers of his country. 1751-1836)
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“If men were angels, no government would be necessary.”
James Madison quotes (American 4th US President (1809-17), and one of the founding fathers of his country. 1751-1836)
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“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms (of government) those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny”
Thomas Jefferson quotes (American 3rd US President (1801-09). Author of the Declaration of Independence. 1762-1826)
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“The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny”
Mark Twain quotes (American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer. 1835-1910)
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“A great wave of oppressive tyranny isn't going to strike, but rather a slow seepage of oppressive laws and regulations from within will sink the American dream of liberty”
George Baumler quotes
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“Tyranny is always better organized than freedom”
Charles Peguy quotes (French Poet, Philosopher and Essayist, 1873-1914)
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“Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them”
Voltaire quotes (French Philosopher and Writer. One of the greatest of all French authors, 1694-1778)
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“Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect”
James Madison quotes (American 4th US President (1809-17), and one of the founding fathers of his country. 1751-1836)
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