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President Constitution Secretary of State Founding Father Federalist Papers

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

- James Madison

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Burden

Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.

- James Madison

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Past Government Will

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

- James Madison

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End Government Will

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

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Mind People

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.

- James Madison

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Common sense Words

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

- James Madison

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Rights May Man

As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.

- James Madison

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If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back.

- Ulysses S. Grant

Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

- John F. Kennedy

Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.

- Gerald R. Ford

I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

- John F. Kennedy
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