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James Madison

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"You give me a credit to which I have no claim in calling me 'the writer of the Constitution of the United States.' This was not, like the fabled Goddess of Wisdom, the offspring of a single brain. It ought to be regarded as the work of many heads and many hands." America 4.8 avg (8 votes)
"The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home." Politics 5.0 avg (25 votes)
"If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." America, War & Peace 4.9 avg (116 votes)
"I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on the objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents." Economics 4.8 avg (26 votes)
"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. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives." Government, Knowledge 4.4 avg (18 votes)


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