Quotation by James Madison

I cannot think of punishing him ... merely for coveting that liberty for which we have paid the price of so much blood, and have proclaimed so often to be the right, and worthy pursuit of every human being.
James Madison (1751–1836), U.S. president. Madison to his father, September 8, 1783. W.T. Hutchinson et al., The Papers of James Madison, vol. 7, p. 304, Chicago and Charlottesville, Virginia (1962-1991).
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