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Quotes by James Madison
- A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
- A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
- A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
- 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.
- A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
- A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
- All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
- Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
- 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.
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