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In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by Power. In America ... charters of power [are] granted by liberty.
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James Madison
Age: 85 †
Born: 1751
Born: March 16
Died: 1836
Died: June 28
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Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
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It is sufficiently obvious, that persons and property are the two great subjects on which Governments are to act and that the rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted. These rights cannot well be separated.
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At cheaper and nearer seats of Learning parents with slender incomes may place their sons in a course of education putting them on a level with the sons of the Richest.
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As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
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