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Granted Quotes by James Madison
- In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by Power. In America ... charters of power [are] granted by liberty.
- In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by power. America has set the example . . . of charters of power granted by liberty.…
- [T]he powers granted by the proposed Constitution are the gift of the people, and may be resumed by them when perverted to their oppression, and…
- [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…
- I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence,…
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- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I want justice to be so pervasive that it will be taken for granted, just as injustice is taken for granted today. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
- I think I've begun to take for granted how easily information can swirl around me. — Sean Astin
- No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider. — Francis Bacon
- To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously… — Arnold Bennett
- The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state. — Buffalo Bill
- In life, so many things are taken for granted, but one thing I can honestly say is that I took every day,… — Wade Boggs
- One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered… — Edward de Bono
- All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved. — Elizabeth Bowen
- The sun is the most important thing in everybody's life, whether you're a plant, an animal or a fish, and we take… — Danny Boyle