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.


1829-1836 (ed. 1867)

James Madison Quotes

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,...

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,...

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,...

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,...