James Madison Quotations I should not regret a fair and full trial

• Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
• Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.
• I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
• I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.
• I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.

                                                                                                                                                                  James Madison