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James Monroe: 'A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.'

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James Monroe: 'The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.'

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John Jay: 'No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.'

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John Jay: 'Those who own the country ought to govern it.'

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James Madison: 'A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.'

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James Madison: 'Philosophy is common sense with big words.'

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James Madison: 'All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.'

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James Madison: 'A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.'

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James Madison: 'What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?'

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James Madison: 'The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.'

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James Madison: '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.'

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James Madison: 'The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.'

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James Madison: 'A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.'

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James Madison: '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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James Madison: 'As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.'

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James Madison: 'The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.'

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James Madison: 'The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.'

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James Madison: 'Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.'

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James Madison: 'If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.'

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James Madison: 'If men were angels, no government would be necessary.'

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