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America Quotes by James Madison
- It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of citizens…
- The governments of Europe are afraid to trust the people with arms. If they did, the people would certainly shake off the yoke of tyranny,…
- The important distinction so well understood in America between a constitution established by the people, and unalterable by the government; and a law established by…
- The sober people of America are weary of the fluctuating policy which has directed the public councils. They have seen with regret and indignation that…
- In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by Power. In America ... charters of power [are] granted by liberty.
- Every man who loves peace, every man who loves his country, every man who loves liberty ought to have it ever before his eyes that…
- Is it not the glory of the people of America, that whilst they have paid a decent regard to the opinions of former times and…
- These examples, though as unfit for the imitation, as they are repugnant to the genius of America, are notwithstanding . . . very instructive proofs…
- It is a principle incorporated into the settled policy of America, that as peace is better than war, war is better than tribute.
- In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by power. America has set the example . . . of charters of power granted by liberty.…
- America united with a handful of troops, or without a single soldier, exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign ambition than America disunited, with a…
- That this liberty [of the press] is often carried to excess; that it has sometimes degenerated into licentiousness, is seen and lamented, but the remedy…
- The first question that offers itself is, whether the general form and aspect of the government be strictly republican? It is evident that no other…
- If it be asked what is to restrain the House of Representatives from making legal discriminations in favor of themselves and a particular class of…
- If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare... they may appoint teachers in every state... The powers of Congress would subvert the very…
- The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded.
- There never was an assembly of men, charged with a great and arduous trust, who were more pure in their motives, or more exclusively or…
- Freedom arises from a multiplicity of sects, which pervades America, and is the best and only security for religious liberty in America.
- America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population,…
- Happily for America, happily, we trust, for the whole human race, they pursued a new and more noble course. They accomplished a revolution which has…
- Experience has proved that the real danger to America and to liberty lies in the defect of energy and stability in the present establishment of…
- In the compound republic of America, the power surrendered by the people is first divided between two distinct governments, and then the portion allotted to…
More America Quotes
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers… — Desi Arnaz
- When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price. — Arthur Ashe
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending… — Bashar al-Assad
- There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me… — Chinua Achebe
- God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it.… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon