American - President | March 16, 1751 - June 28, 1836
Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
James Madison
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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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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.
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In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
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I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution.
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The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?
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