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“Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament, to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.”
― James Madison

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

“If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.”
― James Madison

“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