Entry 85

Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
John Adams

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
James Madison

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
James Madison


Philosophy is common sense with big words.
James Madison

The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
James Madison

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
James Madison