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I hope this will find you...enjoying the commencement of a new year with every prospect that can make it a happy one.

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James Madison
Age: 85 †
Born: 1751
Born: March 16
Died: 1836
Died: June 28
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People will continue to seek justice until it is found, or until liberty is lost in the pursuit.
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That useful alterations will be suggested by experience, could not but be foreseen . . . . It moreover equally enables the general and state governments to originate the amendment of errors as they may be pointed out by the experience on one side or on the other.
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