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Common Quotes by James Madison
- The aim of every political Constitution, is or ought to be first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most…
- A zeal for different opinions concerning religion...[has] divided mankind into parties, inflamed them with mutual animosity, and rendered them much more disposed to vex and…
- There is in every breast a sensibility to marks of honor, of favor, of esteem, and of confidence, which, apart from all considerations of interest,…
- By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated…
- A pure democracy can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction. A common passion or interest will be felt by a majority, and there…
- Where a majority are united by a common sentiment, and have an opportunity, the rights of the minor party become insecure.
- To refer the power in question to the clause "to provide for the common defense and general welfare" would be contrary to the established and…
- I am unable to conceive that the state legislatures which must feel so many motives to watch, and which possess so many means of counteracting…
- We may be assured by past experience, that such a practice [as some states charging high taxes on goods from other states] would be introduced…
- Extend the sphere and you take in a greater variety of parties and interests; you make it less probable that a majority of the whole…
- [In a democracy] a common passion or interest will, in almost every case , be felt by a majority of the whole; a communication and…
- [T]he most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold and those who are without…
- When men exercise their reason coolly and freely, on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions, on some of them. When…
- In republican government the legislative authority necessarily predominates. The remedy for this . . . is to divide the legislature into different branches; and to…
- In suits at common law, trial by jury in civil cases is as essential to secure the liberty of the people as any one of…
- The free system of government we have established is so congenial with reason, with common sense, and with a universal feeling, that it must produce…
- Philosophy is common sense with big words.
More Common Quotes
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator… — Aristotle
- Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain… — Karen Armstrong
- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
- These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of… — William Henry Ashley
- Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and… — Saint Augustine
- The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle. — Marcus Aurelius