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Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. ↗

— 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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The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. ↗

— James Madison

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The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries. ↗

— James Madison

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And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together. ↗

— James Madison

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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts. ↗

— James Madison

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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them. ↗

— 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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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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The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world. ↗