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“The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to which all such institutions must be sacrificed”
James Madison quotes (American 4th US President (1809-17), and one of the founding fathers of his country. 1751-1836)
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“In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority”
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 essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.”
James Madison quotes (American 4th US President (1809-17), and one of the founding fathers of his country. 1751-1836)
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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”
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“There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.”
James Thurber quotes (American Writer, 1894-1961)
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“A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.”
James Madison quotes (American 4th US President (1809-17), and one of the founding fathers of his country. 1751-1836)
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“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 quotes (American 4th US President (1809-17), and one of the founding fathers of his country. 1751-1836)
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“The Constitution of the United States was created by the people of the United States composing the respective states, who alone had the right .”
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 accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny”
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 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”
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“I speak of peace, while covert enmity under the smile of safety wounds the world.”
William Shakespeare quotes (English Dramatist, Playwright and Poet, 1564-1616)
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