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James Madison Quotes

James Madison
  • "A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them."
  • "A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person."
  • "A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country."
  • "All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree."
  • "Ambition must be made to counteract ambition."
  • "Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes."
  • "As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights."
  • "As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed."
  • "If men were angels, no government would be necessary."
  • "Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power."


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