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Party Quotes by James Madison
- A zeal for different opinions concerning religion...[has] divided mankind into parties, inflamed them with mutual animosity, and rendered them much more disposed to vex and…
- No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause . . . . With equal, nay with greater reason, bodies of men,…
- Measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of…
- 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…
- Where a majority are united by a common sentiment, and have an opportunity, the rights of the minor party become insecure.
- [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…
- 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…
- 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…
- The apportionment of taxes on the various descriptions of property is an act which seems to require the most exact impartiality; yet there is, perhaps,…
- No free country has ever been without Parties, which are a natural offspring of freedom.
- 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…
- 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.…
- [In the case of] dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the states, who are parties thereto, have the right, and…
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