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The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived. ↗

— James Madison

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Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere. ↗

— James Madison

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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. ↗

— James Madison

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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. ↗

— James Madison

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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. ↗

— James Madison

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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government. ↗

— James Madison

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To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression. ↗

— James Madison

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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason. ↗

— James Madison

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For example, I loved English and history at school. I would have loved to have done a degree in either. But my Mom said I didn't have time for university. ↗

— Vanessa Mae

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All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing. ↗

— Maurice Maeterlinck

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