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Assembly Quotes by James Madison
- The necessity of a senate is not less indicated by the propensity of all single and numerous assemblies, to yield to the impulse of sudden…
- [Regarding legislative assemblies,] the number ought at most to be kept within a certain limit, in order to avoid the confusion and intemperance of a…
- Whatever may be the judgement pronounced on the competency of the architects of the Constitution, or whatever may be the destiny of the edifice prepared…
- 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…
- Resolved, That the General Assembly of Virginia, doth unequivocally express a firm resolution to maintain and defend the Constitution of the United States, and the…
- Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.
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- Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the… — Louis D. Brandeis
- And the annual meetings of the League's Assembly are in effect official peace congresses binding on the participating states to an extent… — Hjalmar Branting
- When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and… — Hannah Arendt
- We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the… — Georg C. Lichtenberg