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James Madison

James Madison föddes den 16 marts 1751 och dog den 28 juni 1836 - (1809-17), and one of the founding fathers of his country.
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Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms

The number of individuals employed under the Constitution of the United States will be much smaller than the number employed under the particular states. There will consequently be less of personal influence on the side of the former than of the latter.

Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect

Religion

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself

Regering

A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.

Learned institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

Dannelse

Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other sects? Memorial and Remonstrance

It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people

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.

Kundskab

The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.

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

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

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