James Madison Quotations Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic

• By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.
• Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
• 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.
• Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.
• Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.

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