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“Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the abuses of power.”
― James Madison, Federalist Papers By James Madison: Federalist No. 10, Federalist No. 45, Federalist No. 51, Federalist No. 44, Federalist No. 47

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“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 tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.”
― James Madison

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“It is *essential* to such a government, that it be derived from the great body of the society, not from an inconsiderable proportion, or a favored class of it; otherwise a handful of tyrannical nobles, exercising their oppressions by a delegation of their powers, might aspire to the rank of republicans, and claim for their government the honorable title of republic.”
― James Madison

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“A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
He has a property of peculiar value in his religious opinions, and in the profession and practice dictated by them.
He has a property very dear to him in the safety and liberty of his person.
He has an equal property in the free use of his faculties and free choice of the objects on which to employ them.
In a word, 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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