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Our Constitution represents the work of the finger of Almighty God.
James Madison
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James Madison
Age: 85 †
Born: 1751
Born: March 16
Died: 1836
Died: June 28
4Th U.S. President
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[Property] embraces everything to which a man may attach a value and have a right.
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[I]t is the reason alone, of the public, that ought to control and regulate the government.
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Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant.
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[Restraints on the press] in all ages, have debauched morals, depressed liberty, shackled religion, supported despotism, and deluged the scaffold with blood.
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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.
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I do not conceive that power is given to the President and Senate to dismember the empire, or to alienate any great, essential right. I do not think the whole legislative authority have this power. The exercise of the power must be consistent with the object of the delegation.
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When men exercise their reason coolly and freely, on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions, on some of them. When they are governed by a common passion, their opinions if they are so to be called, will be the same.
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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
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The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex.
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A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
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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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A people armed and free, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition and is a bulwark for the nation against foreign invasion and domestic oppression.
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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
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The two great points of difference between a democracy and a republic are: first, the delegation of the government, in the latter,to a small number of citizens elected by the rest secondly, the greater number of citizens and greater sphere of country over which the latter may be extended.
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Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.
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It is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity toward each other.
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Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.
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Every answer he [President John Adams] gives to his addressers unmasks more and more his principles and views. His language to the young men at Philadelphia is the most abominable and degrading that could fall from the lips of the first magistrate of an independent people, and particularly from a Revolutionary patriot.
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From the the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different degrees and kinds of property immediately results.
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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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