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Quote by James Madison
If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffr

If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason. – James Madison

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I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. – James Madison

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A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country. – James Madison

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best
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power. – James Madison

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Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it. – Edward de Bono

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Every truth has two sides it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either. – Aesop

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Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth. – Mohsen Makhmalbaf

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Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth. – Blaise Pascal

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Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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People will in a great degree, and not without reason, form their opinion of you by that they have of your friends, as, says the – Proverb

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