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Democracy is the most vile form of government... democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention: have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property: and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths. - James Madison

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US President, lived 1751-1836

Born:16th March, 1751
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