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“A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.”
-- James Madison
#Country #People #Liberty
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“If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.”
-- James Madison
#Inspirational #Fear #War
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“Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.”
-- James Madison
#Government #Charity #Constitution
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“As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.”
-- James Madison
#Men #Rights #Liberty
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“No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.”
-- James Madison
#Freedom #War #Political
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“Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.”
-- James Madison
#Fear #War #Enemy
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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
#Patriotic #Men #Law
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“It is very certain that [the commerce clause] grew out of the abuse of the power by the importing States in taxing the non-importing, and was intended as a negative and preventive provision against injustice among the States themselves, rather than as a power to be used for the positive purposes of the General Government.”
-- James Madison
#Government #Abuse #Purpose
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“Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ.”
-- James Madison
#Bible #God #Religious
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“The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.”
-- James Madison
#Confidence #Money #Self Esteem
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“If men were angels, no government would be necessary.”
-- James Madison
#Adversity #Angel #Men
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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
#War #Liberty #Bears
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“The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.”
-- James Madison
#Freedom #War #Mean
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“The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.”
-- James Madison
#War #Liberty #Causes
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“In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.”
-- James Madison
#Respect #Rights #Majority
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“Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace.”
-- James Madison
#Strength #Peace #Army
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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
#Art #Agriculture #America
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“If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one....”
-- James Madison
#Government #Done #Socialism
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“Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.... During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in laity; in both, superstition, bigotry, and persecution.”
-- James Madison
#Religious #Ignorance #Pride
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“[I]t is more convenient to prevent the passage of a law, than to declare it void after it has passed.”
-- James Madison
#Law #Void #Legislature
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“The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.”
-- James Madison
#Giving #Liberty #Protection
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“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.”
-- James Madison
#Country #Gun #Government
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“I have received your letter of the 6th, with the eloquent discourse delivered at the consecration of the Jewish Synagogue. Having ever regarded the freedom of religious opinions and worship as equally belonging to every sect, and the secure enjoyment of it as the best human provision for bringing all either into the same way of thinking, or into that mutual charity which is the only substitute, I observe with pleasure the view you give of the spirit in which your sect partake of the blessings offered by our Government and laws.”
-- James Madison
#Religious #Thinking #Blessing
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“Having outlived so many of my contemporaries, I ought not to forget that I may be thought to have outlived myself.”
-- James Madison
#May #Forget
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“Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few ... No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.”
-- James Madison
#Inspirational #War #Army
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“A government resting on the minority is an aristocracy, not a Republic, and could not be safe with a numerical and physical force against it, without a standing army, an enslaved press and a disarmed populace.”
-- James Madison
#Army #Gun #Government
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“The great desideratum in Government is, so to modify the sovereignty as that it may be sufficiently neutral between different parts of the Society to controul one part from invading the rights of another, and at the same time sufficiently controuled itself, from setting up an interest adverse to that of the entire Society.”
-- James Madison
#Rights #Government #Different
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“Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks-no form of government can render us secure. To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea, if there be sufficient virtue and intelligence in the community, it will be exercised in the selection of these men. So that we do not depend on their virtue, or put confidence in our rulers, but in the people who are to choose them.”
-- James Madison
#Men #Ideas #People
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“Americans need not fear the federal government because they enjoy the advantage of being armed, which you possess over the people of almost every other nation.”
-- James Madison
#Freedom #Gun #Government
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“Conscience is the most sacred of all property; other property depending in part on positive law, the exercise of that, being a natural and unalienable right.”
-- James Madison
#Exercise #Law #Sacred
