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The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad. ↗

— James Madison

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It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad. ↗

— James Madison

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Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations. ↗

— 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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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. ↗

— James Madison

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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done. ↗

— James Madison

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Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages. ↗

— James Madison

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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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There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong. ↗

— James Madison

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In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. ↗

— James Madison

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