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Principles 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…
- We have staked the whole future of our new nation, not upon the power of government; far from it. We have staked the future of…
- That diabolical Hell conceived principle of persecution rages amoung some and to their eternal Infamy the Clergy can furnish their Quota of Imps for such…
- It will be remembered, that a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles is solemnly enjoined by most of the state constitutions, and particularly by our own,…
- The establishment of the chaplainship to Congress is a palpable violation of ... constitutional principles.
- 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…
- There is not a more important and fundamental principle in legislation, than that the ways and means ought always to face the public engagements; that…
- 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…
- It may be considered as an objection inherent in the principle, that as every appeal to the people would carry an implication of some defect…
- Bills of attainder, ex-post facto laws and laws impairing the obligation of contracts are contrary to the first principles of the social compact, and to…
- It is a principle incorporated into the settled policy of America, that as peace is better than war, war is better than tribute.
- If we resort for a criterion to the different principles on which different forms of government are established, we may define a republic to be,…
- I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse and in a republican government more than in any other.
- The first question that offers itself is, whether the general form and aspect of the government be strictly republican? It is evident that no other…
- 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…
- 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…
- Besides the danger of a direct mixture of religion and civil government, there is an evil which ought to be guarded against in the indefinite…
- I consider it…as subverting the fundamental and characteristic principle of the Government…and as bidding defiance to the sense in which the Constitution is known to…
- 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…
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- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle. — Marcus Aurelius
- I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. — Jane Austen
- While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they… — Teresa of Avila
- A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too… — Sai Baba
- That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it,… — Charles Babbage
- The United Nations should become a proactive agent in the dissemination of democratic principles. — Michelle Bachelet
- Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established. — Honore de Balzac