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Press Quotes by James Madison
- A government resting on the minority is an aristocracy, not a Republic, and could not be safe with a numerical and physical force against it,…
- That this liberty [of the press] is often carried to excess; that it has sometimes degenerated into licentiousness, is seen and lamented, but the remedy…
- The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, or to publish their sentiments; and the freedom of the press, as…
- To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and…
- Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace.
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