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Reflection Quotes by James Madison
- It is impossible for the man of pious reflection not to perceive in it [the Constitution] a finger of that Almighty hand which has been…
- It is a melancholy reflection that liberty should be equally exposed to danger whether the government have too much power or too little power and…
- The real wonder is that so many difficulties should have been surmounted [in the federal convention], and surmounted with a unanimity almost as unprecedented as…
- What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were…
- The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature, that such…
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