Madison

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    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)

    Union of Religious Sentiments begets a surprising confidence and Ecclesiastical Establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption, all of which facilitate the Execution of Mischievous Projects.
    —James Madison (1751–1836)

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