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Made Quotes by James Madison
- Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
- We have seen the mere distinction of color made in the most enlightened period of time, a ground of the most oppressive dominion ever exercised…
- The liberal appropriations made by the legislature of Kentucky for a general system of education cannot be too much applauded . . . . Learned…
- Since it is impossible for the people spontaneously and universally, to move in concert towards their object; and it is therefore essential, that such changes…
- This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made,…
- [A]s it must be admitted that the remedy under the Constitution lies where it has been marked out by the Constitution; and that no appeal…
- Every new regulation concerning commerce or revenue; or in any manner affecting the value of the different species of property, presents a new harvest to…
- But cool and candid people will at once reflect, that the purest of human blessings must have a portion of alloy in them, that the…
- The best reason to be assigned, in this case, for not having made the Constitution more free from a charge of uncertainty in its meaning,…
- The preservation of a free government requires not merely that the metes and bounds which separate each department of power be invariably maintained; but more…
- Money cannot be applied to the *general welfare*, otherwise than by an application of it to some *particular* measure conducive to the general welfare. Whenever,…
- May it not be asked of every intelligent friend to the liberties of his country, whether the power exercised in such an act as this…
- It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so…
- Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
- All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not…
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