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President Quotes by James Madison
- Whilst the last members were signing it Doctr. Franklin looking towards the Presidents chair, at the back of which a rising sun happened to be…
- The Constitution expressly and exclusively vests in the Legislature the power of declaring a state of war [and] the power of raising armies.... A delegation…
- 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…
- Every answer he [President John Adams] gives to his addressers unmasks more and more his principles and views. His language to the young men at…
- The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, or to publish their sentiments; and the freedom of the press, as…
- ... large and permanent military establishments ... are forbidden by the principles of free government, and against the necessity of which the militia were meant…
- Landholders ought to have a share in the government to support these invaluable interests and check the other many. They ought to be so constituted…
- I think it absolutely necessary that the President should have the power of removing his subordinates from office; it will make him, in a peculiar…
- The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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