Secure Liberty Quotes by James Madison

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James Madison has 478 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• The Alien bill proposed in the Senate is a monster that must forever disgrace its parents.
• It was by the sober sense of our citizens that we were safely and steadily conducted from monarchy to republicanism, and it…
• The characters and events depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
• Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the…
• If there be a principle that ought not to be questioned within the United States, it is that every man has a…
• It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first…
• Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
• Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant.
• A standing army is one of the greatest mischief that can possibly happen.
• War is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement
• The power to declare war, including the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature.
• The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested in war,…

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