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Their Own Quotes by James Madison
- American citizens are instrumental in carrying on a traffic in enslaved Africans, equally in violation of the laws of humanity and in defiance of those…
- Democracy was the right of the people to choose their own tyrant.
- Is it not the glory of the people of America, that whilst they have paid a decent regard to the opinions of former times and…
- I own myself the friend to a very free system of commerce, and hold it as a truth, that commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive…
- The most that the Convention could do in such a situation, was to avoid the errors suggested by the past experience of other countries, as…
- The apportionment of taxes on the various descriptions of property is an act which seems to require the most exact impartiality; yet there is, perhaps,…
- The people can never willfully betray their own interests: But they may possibly be betrayed by the representatives of the people; and the danger will…
- The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.…
- Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
- 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…
- The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.
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- I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own. — Margaret Atwood
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- The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
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