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Establishment Quotes by James Madison
- Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence, and ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption; all of which facilitate the execution of mischievous…
- The establishment of the chaplainship to Congress is a palpable violation of ... constitutional principles.
- How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations and establishments of…
- Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.
- How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations and establishments of…
- If justice, good faith, honor, gratitude and all the other qualities which enoble the character of a nation, and fulfill the ends of Government be…
- Besides the danger of a direct mixture of religion and civil government, there is an evil which ought to be guarded against in the indefinite…
- Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.... Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several…
- The Constitution of the U.S. forbids everything like an establishment of a national religion.
- ... large and permanent military establishments ... are forbidden by the principles of free government, and against the necessity of which the militia were meant…
- [The proposed establishment] will have a . . . tendency to banish our Citizens. . . . To superadd a fresh motive to emigration by…
- Who does not see that . . . the same authority which can force a citizen to contribute three pence only of his property for…
- Is the appointment of Chaplains to the two Houses of Congress consistent with the Constitution, and with the pure principle of religious freedom? In strictness…
- Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.... During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been…
- 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…
- During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What has been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride…
More Establishment Quotes
- Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead… — Ambrose Bierce
- At a time when 2500 American soldiers have given their lives for the cause of bringing democracy to Iraq, it is sad… — Earl Blumenauer
- The establishment of Zionist regime was a move by the world oppressor against the Islamic world. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
- We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
- If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it. — Art Buchwald
- The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which… — John C. Calhoun
- People call me wild. Not really though, I'm not.I guess I've never been normal, not what you call Establishment. I'm country. — Johnny Cash
- There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political establishment. — Noam Chomsky
- I'm interested in people who have to overcome obstacles, people who are not sheltered by the umbrella of the establishment, marginals. — Isabel Allende
- Hippy is an establishment label for a profound, invisible, underground, evolutionary process. For every visible hippy, barefoot, beflowered, beaded, there are a… — Timothy Leary
- The endeavor to keep alive any hoary establishment beyond its natural date is often pernicious and always useless. — Mary Wollstonecraft
- this last establishment will probably be within a mile of Charlottesville, and four from Monticello, if the system should be adopted at… — Thomas Jefferson