Madison

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    A distinction of property results from that very protection which a free Government gives to unequal faculties of acquiring it.
    —James Madison (1751–1836)

    Should ardent spirits be everywhere banished from the list of drinks, it will be a revolution not the least remarkable in this revolutionary age, and our country will have its full share in that as in other merits.
    —James Madison (1751–1836)

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