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«We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.»
«The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| About:
Knowledge
| Keywords:
advancement, advancements, diffusion, guardian, The Guardian
«The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to which all such institutions must be sacrificed»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| About:
Happiness,
Safety,
Society
| Keywords:
political institutions, sacrificed, such institutions
«On a candid examination of history, we shall find that turbulence, violence, and abuse of power, by the majority, trampling on the rights of the minority, have produced factions and commotions which, in republics, have, more frequently than any other»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| About:
History
| Keywords:
abuse, abuse of power, candid, examination, factions, frequently, minority, produced, republics, trampling, turbulence
«The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.»
Author: James Madison
(President)
«Keep within the requisite limits a standing military force, always remembering that an armed and trained militia is the firmest bulwark of republics - that without standing armies their liberty can never be in danger, nor with large ones safe»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| Keywords:
Armed force, armed forces, armies, bulwark, firmest, military force, military training, militia, requisite, stand firm, trained
«The distinction between liberty and licentiousness is a repetition of the Protean doctrine of implication, which is ever ready to work its ends by varying its shape»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| Keywords:
distinction, doctrine, implication, licentiousness, protean, repetition, shape, varying
«The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| Keywords:
diversity, faculties, insuperable, obstacle, originate, protection, uniformity
«Our opinions agree as to the evil, moral, political, and economical, of slavery»
«I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse, and in a Republican Government a greater curse than any other»
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