Ambition must be made to counteract ambi... by James Madison | We Heart Quotes

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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.

- James Madison

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Disarm the people – that is the best and most effective way to enslave them.

- James Madison

Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.

- James Madison

Hatred Vanity Pride

By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.

- James Madison

Morality People

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.

- James Madison

Government First

The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

- James Madison

Punishment

I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.

- James Madison

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