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Form Quotes by James Madison
- It degrades from the equal rank of Citizens all those whose opinions in Religion do not bend to those of the Legislative authority. Distant as…
- In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to…
- The important distinction so well understood in America between a constitution established by the people, and unalterable by the government; and a law established by…
- Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which…
- The Federal Constitution forms a happy combination in this respect; the great and aggregate interests being referred to the national, the local and particular, to…
- It becomes all therefore who are friends of a Government based on free principles to reflect, that by denying the possibility of a system partly…
- Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks-no form of government can render us…
- 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 regulation of these various and interfering interests forms the principal task of modern legislation and involves the spirit of party and faction in the…
- [In a democracy] a common passion or interest will, in almost every case , be felt by a majority of the whole; a communication and…
- If we resort for a criterion to the different principles on which different forms of government are established, we may define a republic to be,…
- The first question that offers itself is, whether the general form and aspect of the government be strictly republican? It is evident that no other…
- Place three individuals in a situation wherein the interest of each depends on the voice of the others, and give to two of them an…
- In all great changes of established governments, forms ought to give way to substance
- The problem to be solved is, not what form of government is perfect, but which of the forms is least imperfect.
- In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. ...under the republican forms [of government], for…
- It is too early for politicians to presume on our forgetting that the public good, the real welfare of the great body of the people,…
- In order to judge of the form to be given to this institution the Senate, it will be proper to take a view of the…
- Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted,…
- To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
- History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by…
- Democracy is the most vile form of government.
- A people armed and free, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition and is a bulwark for the nation against foreign invasion and domestic…
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- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship. — Julian Assange
- There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have… — Karen Armstrong
- When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its… — Antonin Artaud
- Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form. — Margaret Atwood
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- I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's essentially just… — Margaret Atwood