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A victorious and powerful ally is but another name for a master.
James Madison
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James Madison
Age: 85 †
Born: 1751
Born: March 16
Died: 1836
Died: June 28
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A local spirit will infallibly prevail much more in the members of Congress than a national spirit will prevail in the legislatures of the particular States.
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We've staked our future on our ability to follow the Ten Commandments with all our heart.
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There is a degree of depravity in mankind which requires a certain degree of circumspection and distrust.
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Rulers who wished to subvert the public liberty, may have found an established Clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just Government instituted to secure & perpetuate it needs them not.
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If we advert to the nature of republican government, we shall find that the censorial power is in the people over the government, and not in the government over the people.
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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The internal effects of a mutable policy are still more calamitous. It poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
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The nation which reposes on the pillow of political confidence, will sooner or later end its political existence in a deadly lethargy.
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It may well happen that the public voice, pronounced by the representatives of the people, will be more constant to the public good than if pronounced by the people themselves.
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To provide employment for the poor, and support for the indigent, is among the primary, and, at the same time, not least difficult cares of the public authority.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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[R]efusing or not refusing to execute a law to stamp it with its final character . . . makes the Judiciary department paramount in fact to the Legislature, which was never intended and can never be proper.
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Resistance to tyranny is service to God.
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The strongest passions and most dangerous weaknesses of the human breast ambition, avarice, vanity, the honorable or venal love of fame, are all in conspiracy against the desire and duty of peace.
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A just security to property is not afforded by that government, under which unequal taxes oppress one species of property and reward another species.
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Disarm the people- that is the best and most effective way to enslave them.
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