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Sense Quotes by James Madison
- It was by the sober sense of our citizens that we were safely and steadily conducted from monarchy to republicanism, and it is by the…
- With respect to the words "general welfare," I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them…
- Is it not the glory of the people of America, that whilst they have paid a decent regard to the opinions of former times and…
- The invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents, but from acts…
- In the latter sense, a man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them. He has a property of peculiar value…
- I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense…
- 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…
- The free system of government we have established is so congenial with reason, with common sense, and with a universal feeling, that it must produce…
- Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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