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Found 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…
- No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause . . . . With equal, nay with greater reason, bodies of men,…
- A pure democracy can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction. A common passion or interest will be felt by a majority, and there…
- [A]ll power is originally vested in, and consequently derived from, the people. That government is instituted and ought to be exercised for the benefit of…
- Reason, on the contrary, assures us, that as in so great a number, a fit representative would be most likely to be found, so the…
- 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…
- The smaller the society, the fewer probably will be the distinct parties and interests composing it; the fewer the distinct parties and interests, the more…
- Whilst the last members were signing it Doctr. Franklin looking towards the Presidents chair, at the back of which a rising sun happened to be…
- To what expedient then shall we finally resort, for maintaining in practice the necessary partition of power among the several departments, as laid down in…
- Among the features peculiar to the political system of the United States, is the perfect equality of rights which it secures to every religious sectEqual…
- On the distinctive principles of the Government ... of the U. States, the best guides are to be found in ... The Declaration of Independence,…
- The free system of government we have established is so congenial with reason, with common sense, and with a universal feeling, that it must produce…
- Torrents of blood have been spilt in the old world, by vain attempts of the secular arm, to extinguish Religious discord, by proscribing all difference…
- In no part of the Constitution is more wisdom to be found than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace to…
- I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and…
- Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives as they have…
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- Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from… — Saint Augustine
- I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within. — Saint Augustine
- Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely. — Marcus Aurelius
- It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are… — Jane Austen
- It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of… — Teresa of Avila