Quote by James Madison
The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Amer

The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. – James Madison

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The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government. – James Madison

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Government
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Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. – James Madison

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War
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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason. – James Madison

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A lot of time you write out of some unconscious place. I try to trust what is coming and where it wants to take me. – Sue Monk Kidd

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Trust

Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust. – Aldrich Ames

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Trust

When political and business leaders tell the public – any public – We dont trust you to make the right decision – they prejudice that electorate against the very proposals they want it to accept and undermine public confidence in themselves. – Preston Manning

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Trust

Our cattlemen have given us the safest, most abundant, most affordable beef supply in the world and I trust their judgment. And if you look at consumer confidence in this country, so does the American public. – Norm Coleman

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Trust

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Now, people when I say that look at me and say, What are you talking about, Joe? Youre telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?. The answer is yes, thats what Im telling you. – Joe Biden

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That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pitys small change in general society. – Charles Dickens

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One night Ill be in Los Angeles and itll be a Latin crowd, and then another night Ill go to Fresno and itll be an all-black crowd. To me, thats the beauty of the music. – Pitbull

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