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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home. ↗

— James Madison

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

— James Madison

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It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood. ↗

— James Madison

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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. ↗

— James Madison

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Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them. ↗

— Bill Maher

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I live like a Hottentot. I cannot exchange one sensible word with anyone. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

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A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped. ↗

— Norman Mailer

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There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce. ↗

— Norman Mailer

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One travels to escape from it all, but that is the great illusion: It cannot be done, since one travels with one's mind. ↗

— Ella Maillart

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The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself. ↗

— Ella Maillart

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