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Object Quotes by James Madison
- 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…
- Security against foreign danger is one of the primitive objects of civil society. It is an avowed and essential object of the American Union.
- To refer the power in question to the clause "to provide for the common defense and general welfare" would be contrary to the established and…
- The defect of power in the existing confederacy, to regulate the commerce between its several members is in the number of those which have been…
- A good government implies two things: first, fidelity to the object of government, which is the happiness of the people; secondly, a knowledge of the…
- In civilized communities, property as well as personal rights are the essential object of the laws, which encourage industry by securing the enjoyment of its…
- Whatever may be the judgement pronounced on the competency of the architects of the Constitution, or whatever may be the destiny of the edifice prepared…
- I do not conceive that power is given to the President and Senate to dismember the empire, or to alienate any great, essential right. I…
- 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.…
- There never was an assembly of men, charged with a great and arduous trust, who were more pure in their motives, or more exclusively or…
- 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,…
- The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
- The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests.…
- A good government implies two things: fidelity to the object of government, which is the happiness of the people; secondly, a knowledge of the means…
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- The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks… — Marcus Aurelius
- Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual, in order… — Annie Besant
- I know that I have the ability to achieve the object of my Definite Purpose in life, therefore, I demand of myself… — Napoleon Hill
- If worms have the power of acquiring some notion, however rude, of the shape of an object and over their burrows, as… — Charles Darwin
- [T]hat the opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction; that to suffer the civil magistrate… — Thomas Jefferson
- A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from… — Ben Hecht
- Luxury is the opportunity to experience quality, be it a place, a person or an object. — Keanu Reeves