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Quote DB :: Authors :: James Madison :: View Quote View Quote "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." - Copy to Clipboard   --  James Madison Listed in: America Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 4.86  Rate Quote 7 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." "If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." "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 "If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate." "I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts." "The government at Washington does live. It lives in the pages of our Constitution and in the hearts of our citizens, and there it will always be safe." "If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide." "On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does."

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