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Essentials Quotes by James Madison
- The best service that can be rendered to a Country, next to that of giving it liberty, is in diffusing the mental improvement equally essential…
- It is a misfortune, inseparable from human affairs, that public measures are rarely investigated with that spirit of moderation which is essential to a just…
- Since it is impossible for the people spontaneously and universally, to move in concert towards their object; and it is therefore essential, that such changes…
- ...to support the Constitution, which is the cement of the Union, as well in its limitations as in its authorities; to respect the rights and…
- Security against foreign danger is one of the primitive objects of civil society. It is an avowed and essential object of the American Union.
- The belief in a God All Powerful wise and good, is so essential to the moral order of the world and to the happiness of…
- In civilized communities, property as well as personal rights are the essential object of the laws, which encourage industry by securing the enjoyment of its…
- Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to…
- [I]n the next place, to show that unless these departments be so far connected and blended as to give to each a constitutional control over…
- I do not conceive that power is given to the President and Senate to dismember the empire, or to alienate any great, essential right. I…
- 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 power of taxing people and their property is essential to the very existence of government.
- Stability in government is essential to national character and to the advantages annexed to it, as well as to that repose and confidence in the…
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