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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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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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I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property. ↗

— James Madison

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The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government. ↗

— James Madison

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A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States. ↗

— 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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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect. ↗

— James Madison

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The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted. ↗

— 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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