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Interest Quotes by James Madison
- It is due to justice; due to humanity; due to truth; due to the sympathies of our nature; in fine, to our character as a…
- The real difference of interests, lay not between large and small, but between the Northern and Southern states. The institution of slavery and its consequences…
- There is in every breast a sensibility to marks of honor, of favor, of esteem, and of confidence, which, apart from all considerations of interest,…
- The smaller the number and the more permanent and conspicuous the station of men in power, the stronger must be the interest which they will…
- The effect of a representative democracy is to refine and enlarge the public views, by passing them through the medium of a chosen body of…
- By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated…
- 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…
- [T]he delegation of the government, in [a republic], to a small number of citizens elected by the rest . . . [is] to refine and…
- 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…
- We have the self-evident right to regulate our trade according to our own will and our own interest . . . . This right can…
- This policy of supplying by opposite and rival interests, the defect of better motives, might be traced through the whole system of human affairs, both…
- The great desideratum in Government is, so to modify the sovereignty as that it may be sufficiently neutral between different parts of the Society to…
- 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…
- Extend the sphere and you take in a greater variety of parties and interests; you make it less probable that a majority of the whole…
- But the mild voice of reason, pleading the cause of an enlarged and permanent interest, is but too often drowned, before public bodies as well…
- The people can never willfully betray their own interests: But they may possibly be betrayed by the representatives of the people; and the danger will…
- 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…
- [T]he most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold and those who are without…
- 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…
- No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment....
- The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests.…
- Landholders ought to have a share in the government to support these invaluable interests and check the other many. They ought to be so constituted…
- In a free Government, the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. It consists in the one case in…
- Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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- He who becomes a Muslim does so in his own interest. — Abu Bakr
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