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Quote DB :: Authors :: James Madison :: View Quote View Quote "If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." - Copy to Clipboard   --  James Madison Listed in: America, War & Peace Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 4.88  Rate Quote 107 votes submitted Your Name: Friend's Email: Sponsored Links Top 5 quotes from James Madison "I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on the objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents." "The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home." "You give me a credit to which I have no claim in calling me 'the writer of the Constitution of the United States.' This was not, like the fabled Goddess of Wisdom, the offspring of a single brain. It ought to be regarded as the work of many heads and many hands." "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. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives." Top 5 quotes from America, War & Peace "Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago." "I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts." "Without a doubt, psychological warfare has proven its right to a place of dignity in our military arsenal." "A tyrant is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader." "If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable; and let it come! I repeat, Sir, let it come!"

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