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James Madison Quotes:

Ocupation: 4th U.S. President

Life: March 16, 1751 - June 28, 1836

Birthday: March 16

Death: June 28

Complaints are everywhere heard from our most considerate and virtuous citizens, equally the friends of public and private faith, and of public and personal liberty, that our governments are too unstable, that the public good is disregarded in the conflicts of rival parties, and that measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority.

- James Madison

source: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.47, Coventry House Publishing

topic: Party, Rights, Government, Personal Liberty, Considerate And Caring, Overbearing

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