Madison

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    A certain degree of miserey [sic] seems inseparable from a high degree of populousness.
    —James Madison (1751–1836)

    Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
    —James Madison (1751–1836)

    Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.
    —James Madison (1751–1836)