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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

“There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.”
― James Madison

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

“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