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"You ought to find all your might, to climb a higher height."
"It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential."
Explore more quotes by James Madison
"War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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 personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right."
"By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt."
"In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority."
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