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Provision Quotes by James Madison
- The rich man, when contributing to a permanent plan for the education of the poor, ought to reflect that he is providing for that of…
- 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…
- Experience assures us, that the efficacy of the provision has been greatly over-rated; and that some more adequate defense is indispensably necessary for the more…
- there ought always to be a constitutional method of giving efficacy to constitutional provisions. What for instance would avail restrictions on the authority of the…
- To what expedient then shall we finally resort, for maintaining in practice the necessary partition of power among the several departments, as laid down in…
- It is very certain that [the commerce clause] grew out of the abuse of the power by the importing States in taxing the non-importing, and…
- The management of foreign relations appears to be the most susceptible of abuse of all the trusts committed to a Government, because they can be…
- Liberty and order will never be perfectly safe until a trespass on the Constitution provisions for either, shall be felt with the same keenness that…
- It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from…
More Provision Quotes
- Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
- The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial… — Robert Bork
- My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from reality by complex and expert… — James Buchan
- Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- And that's really what's happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a country entrenched in… — Sharron Angle
- Every time we sign a treaty with another country, the treaty (should) include prisoner transfer provisions.... Under these provisions, the country in… — Kathleen Brown
- Like buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have beckoned to the adventurous from immemorial times. Princes and potentates, political or industrial,… — George Ellery Hale
- We have consistently supported a legalization program which is both generous to the alien and fair to the countless thousands of people… — Ronald Reagan
- It is not till it is discovered that high individual incomes will not purchase the mass of mankind immunity from cholera, typhus,… — R. H. Tawney
- A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization. — Samuel Johnson
- How wise and how merciful is that provision of nature by which his earthly anchor is usually loosened by many little imperceptible… — Arthur Conan Doyle
- ... the first thing his education demands is the provision of an environment in which he can develop the powers given him… — Maria Montessori