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A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both. – James Madison

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Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors. – James Madison

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The happy Union of these States is a wonder their Constitution a miracle their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world. – James Madison

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Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense. – James Madison

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The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted. – James Madison

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I am often asked if, when I was secretary, I had problems with foreign men. That is not who I had problems with, because I arrived in a very large plane that said United States of America. I had more problems with the men in our own government. – Madeleine Albright

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While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile. – Madeleine Albright

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A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away. – Barry Goldwater

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I so desperately hate to end these movies that the first thing I do when Im done is write another one. Then I dont feel sad about having to leave and everybody going away. – John Hughes

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