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Objects Quotes by James Madison
- The liberal appropriations made by the legislature of Kentucky for a general system of education cannot be too much applauded . . . . Learned…
- As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed. As long as…
- Security against foreign danger is one of the primitive objects of civil society. It is an avowed and essential object of the American Union.
- In the first place, it is to be remembered, that the general government is not to be charged with the whole power of making and…
- In this relation, then, the proposed government cannot be deemed a national one; since its jurisdiction extends to certain enumerated objects only, and leaves to…
- I own myself the friend to a very free system of commerce, and hold it as a truth, that commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive…
- Who are to be the objects of popular choice? Every citizen whose merit may recommend him to the esteem and confidence of his country.
- 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…
- It is sufficiently obvious, that persons and property are the two great subjects on which Governments are to act; and that the rights of persons,…
- For the same reason that the members of the State legislatures will be unlikely to attach themselves sufficiently to national objects, the members of the…
- In the latter sense, a man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them. He has a property of peculiar value…
- As the war was just in its origin and necessary and noble in its objects, we can reflect with a proud satisfaction that in carrying…
- The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to which all such institutions must be sacrificed.
- The government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose powers are more…
- The great objects which presented themselves [to the Constitutional Convention] ... formed a task more difficult than can be well conceived by those who were…
- The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
- Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against…
- The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are…
- 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,…
- The rights of persons, and therights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
More Objects Quotes
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- I'm generous. I give good tips. It's just - the way I live my life, ironically enough, is: I don't want anything.… — Paul Auster
- If you'd rather live surrounded by pristine objects than by the traces of happy memories, stay focused on tangible things. Otherwise, stop… — Martha Beck
- It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- What I point out to you is only that you shouldn't allow yourselves to be confused by others. Act when you need… — Kelly Lin
- in the spring he will attend your botanical course. his natural turn is very strongly to the objects of your two courses… — Thomas Jefferson
- The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of a poem,… — William James
- What can it be about low temperatures that sharpens the edges of objects? — Ian Mcewan