104 ordspråk av James Madison
James Madison
James Madison föddes den
16 maart 1751 och dog den 28 juni
1836 - (1809-17), and one of the founding fathers of his country.
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Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms
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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
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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
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Another of my wishes is to depend as little as possible on the labor of slaves
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any act that may be called a misdemeanor.
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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
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completely and utterly untrue.
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Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.
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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.
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Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations
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Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations
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Experience has proved that the real danger to America and to liberty lies in the defect of energy and stability in the present establishment of the United States
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Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred
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Government destitute of energy, will ever produce anarchy
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