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Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

~James Madison

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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

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

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There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.

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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.

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To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.

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It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

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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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As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: President

Born: March 16th, 1751

Died: June 28th, 1836

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