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«In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
administered, administering, administers, difficulty, enable, framing, governed, oblige
«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.»
«Learned institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| About:
Education,
Learning,
Liberty,
Security
| Keywords:
craftiest, crafty, encroachment, encroachments, favorite, free people, institutions
«Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other sects? Memorial and Remonstrance»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| Keywords:
Christians, ease, establish, established religion, exclusion, memorial, memorials, religions, remonstrance, sect, sects
«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.»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| About:
Constitution,
Government
| Keywords:
background, backgrounds, Background and, bastardized, constitution, distorted, historical, illegitimate, in the background, perverted, perverting, perverts, separate, subvert, subverted, subverting, subverts, text
«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.»
«Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| About:
Generations
| Keywords:
burden, carrying, expense, generations
«Liberty and order will never be perfectly safe, until a trespass on the constitutional provisions for either, shall be felt with the same keenness that resents an invasion of the dearest rights.»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| About:
Liberty,
Order
| Keywords:
constitutional, constitutional right, constitutional rights, dearest, invasion, invasions, keenness, provisions, resents, trespass, trespassing
«A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people»
«Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
begets, begot, sentiments, surprising, union
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