Poet James Madison

James Madison

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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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Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.
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.
To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.
Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
The essence of Government is power and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

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