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People will continue to seek justice until it is found, or until liberty is lost in the pursuit.
James Madison
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James Madison
Age: 85 †
Born: 1751
Born: March 16
Died: 1836
Died: June 28
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I have ever regarded the freedom of religious opinions and worship as equally belonging to every sect.
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Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.
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The regulation of these various and interfering interests forms the principal task of modern legislation and involves the spirit of party and faction in the necessary and ordinary operations of government.
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These considerations and many others that might be mentioned prove, and experience confirms it, that artisans and manufacturers will commonly be disposed to bestow their votes on merchants.
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If men were angels, there would be no need of government.
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No free country has ever been without Parties, which are a natural offspring of freedom.
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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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Among the numerous advantages promised by a well-constructed Union, none deserves to be more accurately developed than its tendency to break and control the violence of faction.
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Because we hold it for 'a fundamental and undeniable truth', that religion or 'the duty which we owe to our Creator' and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence.
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[The public has] the habit now of invalidating opinions emanating from me by reference to my age and infirmities.
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The better proof of reverence for that holy name would be not to profane it by making it a topic of legislative discussion.
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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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In contemplating the pecuniary resources needed for the removal of such a number to so great a distance [freed slaves to Africa], my thoughts and hopes have long been turned to the rich fund presented in the western lands of the nation . . .
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Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.
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Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society.
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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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As the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial departments of the United States are co-ordinate, and each equally bound to support the Constitution, it follows that each must in the exercise of its functions be guided by the text of the Constitution according to its own interpretation of it.
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