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«Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment withoutwhich it instantly expires. But it could not be less folly toabolish liberty, which is essential to political life, becauseit nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilationof air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts tofire its destructive agency.»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| About:
Liberty
| Keywords:
abolish, agency, aliment, annihilation, destructive, expire, expires, expiring, faction, factions, folly, imparting, imparts, instantly, nourishes, political liberty, The Agency
«A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| Keywords:
administer, assemble, assembling, consisting, government in, in person, small number
«A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.»
«I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| About:
Benevolence,
Charity,
Government,
Taxation
| Keywords:
article, benevolence, Congress of, constituent, constituents, expend, expended, expending, expends, finger, on that, undertake
«A good government implies two things: fidelity to the object of government, which is the happiness of the people; secondly, a knowledge of the means by which that object can be best attained»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| About:
Fidelity,
Government,
Knowledge
| Keywords:
attained, fidelity, implies, secondly, The Object of
«Such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| Keywords:
contention, contentions, deaths, democracies, incompatible, personal property, spectacles, turbulence, violent death
«A standing army is one of the greatest mischief that can possibly happen»
«Another of my wishes is to depend as little as possible on the labor of slaves»
«As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights»
«Government destitute of energy, will ever produce anarchy»
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