We look back, already, with astonishment, at the daring outrages commi…

James Madison
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We look back, already, with astonishment, at the daring outrages committed by despotism, on the reason and rights of man; we look forward with joy, to the period, when it shall be despoiled of all its usurpations, and bound forever in the chains, with which it had loaded its miserable victims. ✨ James Madison (1867). 1829-1836, p.467
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