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“A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.”
James Madison quotes (American 4th US President (1809-17), and one of the founding fathers of his country. 1751-1836)
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“The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.”
James Madison quotes (American 4th US President (1809-17), and one of the founding fathers of his country. 1751-1836)
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“Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms”
James Madison quotes (American 4th US President (1809-17), and one of the founding fathers of his country. 1751-1836)
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“The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.”
James Madison quotes (American 4th US President (1809-17), and one of the founding fathers of his country. 1751-1836)
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“I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.”
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“Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.”
James Madison quotes (American 4th US President (1809-17), and one of the founding fathers of his country. 1751-1836)
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“The Constitution of the United States was created by the people of the United States composing the respective states, who alone had the right .”
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“Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations”
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“In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority”
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“The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to which all such institutions must be sacrificed”
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“There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong”
James Madison quotes (American 4th US President (1809-17), and one of the founding fathers of his country. 1751-1836)
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