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Friday 3 July 2015

Quotes by James Madison

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
The proposed Constitution is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution; but a composition of both.
The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.
Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

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