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Experience Quotes by James Madison
- The experience of the United States is a happy disproof of the error so long rooted in the unenlightened minds of well meaning Christians, as…
- Is it not the glory of the people of America, that whilst they have paid a decent regard to the opinions of former times and…
- That useful alterations will be suggested by experience, could not but be foreseen . . . . It moreover equally enables the general and state…
- The defect of power in the existing confederacy, to regulate the commerce between its several members is in the number of those which have been…
- The most that the Convention could do in such a situation, was to avoid the errors suggested by the past experience of other countries, as…
- 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…
- Experience assures us, that the efficacy of the provision has been greatly over-rated; and that some more adequate defense is indispensably necessary for the more…
- Frequent elections are unquestionably the only policy by which this dependence and sympathy can be effectually secured. But what particular degree of frequency may be…
- Experience has instructed us that no skill in the science of government has yet been able to discriminate and define, with sufficient certainty, its three…
- It is a melancholy reflection that liberty should be equally exposed to danger whether the government have too much power or too little power and…
- These considerations and many others that might be mentioned prove, and experience confirms it, that artisans and manufacturers will commonly be disposed to bestow their…
- I have appealed to our own experience for the truth of what I advance on this subject [that the legislative power is the predominant power].…
- It would have marked a want of foresight in the convention, which our own experience would have rendered inexcusable.
- A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions.
- If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.…
- 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…
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- The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience. — Chinua Achebe
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