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One Quotes by James Madison
- If there be a principle that ought not to be questioned within the United States, it is that every man has a right to abolish…
- It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of citizens…
- A standing army is one of the greatest mischief that can possibly happen.
- Inference is founded upon obvious reasons. Regard to reputation has a less active influence, when the infamy of a bad action is to be divided…
- It may not be easy, in every possible case, to trace the line of separation between the rights of religion and the Civil authority with…
- The sober people of America are weary of the fluctuating policy which has directed the public councils. They have seen with regret and indignation that…
- As the people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of…
- Security against foreign danger is one of the primitive objects of civil society. It is an avowed and essential object of the American Union.
- One nation is to another what one individual is to another; with this melancholy distinction perhaps, that the former with fewer of the benevolent emotions…
- 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…
- It becomes all therefore who are friends of a Government based on free principles to reflect, that by denying the possibility of a system partly…
- That useful alterations will be suggested by experience, could not but be foreseen . . . . It moreover equally enables the general and state…
- 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…
- How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations and establishments of…
- 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…
- There is one view of the subject which ought to have its influence on those who espouse doctrines which strike at the authoritative origin and…
- A just security to property is not afforded by that government, under which unequal taxes oppress one species of property and reward another species.
- Popular liberty might then have escaped the indelible reproach of decreeing to the same citizens, the hemlock on one day, and statues on the next.
- One hundred and seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one.
- 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…
- It may not be improper, however, to remark two consequences, evidently flowing from an extension of the federal power to every subject falling within the…
- Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one.
- The genius of Republican liberty, seems to demand on one side, not only that all power should be derived from the people; but, that those…
- It is of great importance in a republic, not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers; but to guard one part…
- I acknowledge, in the ordinary course of government, that the exposition of the laws and Constitution devolves upon the judicial. But I beg to know…
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- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle