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The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

~James Madison

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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.

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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.

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Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?

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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.

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I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

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The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.

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The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: President

Born: March 16th, 1751

Died: June 28th, 1836

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