James Madison Quotations Ambition must be made to counteract ambition

• A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
• All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
• All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.
• Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
• America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.

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