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A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person. ↗

— 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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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic. ↗

— 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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The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself. ↗

— 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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We possess only the happiness we are able to understand. ↗

— Maurice Maeterlinck

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