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Instruments Quotes by James Madison
- Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.…
- It is superfluous to try by the standards of theory, a part of the constitution which is allowed on all hands to be the result…
- The invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents, but from acts…
- In proportion to the value of this revolution; in proportion to the importance of instruments, every word of which decides a question between power and…
- The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
- The means of defence against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to…
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