“History is not the study of origins; rather it is the analysis of all the mediations by which the past was turned into our present.”
― The Whig Interpretation of History
― The Whig Interpretation of History
“Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind, and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
[Letter to William Bradford Jr. April 1 1774]”
― Letters and Other Writings of James Madison Volume 3
[Letter to William Bradford Jr. April 1 1774]”
― Letters and Other Writings of James Madison Volume 3
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