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Evil Quotes by James Madison
- American citizens are instrumental in carrying on a traffic in enslaved Africans, equally in violation of the laws of humanity and in defiance of those…
- If slavery, as a national evil, is to be abolished, and it be just that it be done at the national expense, the amount of…
- The magnitude of this evil among us is so deeply felt, and so universally acknowledged, that no merit could be greater than that of devising…
- It has been said that all Government is an evil. It would be more proper to say that the necessity of any Government is a…
- The people of the U.S. owe their Independence & their liberty, to the wisdom of descrying in the minute tax of 3 pence on tea,…
- But cool and candid people will at once reflect, that the purest of human blessings must have a portion of alloy in them, that the…
- I regret, as much as any member, the unavoidable weight and duration of the burdens to be imposed; having never been a proselyte to the…
- 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…
- 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…
- Temporary deviations from fundamental principles are always more or less dangerous. When the first pretext fails, those who become interested in prolonging the evil will…
- [In the case of] dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the states, who are parties thereto, have the right, and…
More Evil Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. — Aristotle
- No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people… — Chester A. Arthur
- Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings! — Mackenzie Astin
- Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. — Wystan Hugh Auden