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Standing Quotes by James Madison
- A standing army is one of the greatest mischief that can possibly happen.
- A government resting on the minority is an aristocracy, not a Republic, and could not be safe with a numerical and physical force against it,…
- ...to support the Constitution, which is the cement of the Union, as well in its limitations as in its authorities; to respect the rights and…
- An armed and trained militia is the firmest bulwark of republics - that without standing armies their liberty can never be in danger, nor with…
- A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.
- The means of defence against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to…
- Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace.
More Standing Quotes
- Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore. — Matthew Arnold
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- These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago...… — Ansel Adams
- I've always said that one night, I'm going to find myself in some field somewhere, I'm standing on grass, and it's raining,… — Drew Barrymore
- There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man… — Jean Baudrillard
- For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount… — Robert Benchley
- People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out. — Warren G. Bennis
- Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and… — Joe Biden
- The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. — William Blake
- Passion and standing up for things can help create a sense of unity. But you still have to act a certain way. — Arthur Blank
- But make no mistake, the President will find in our new majority the voice of the American people as they've expressed it… — John Boehner
- Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all… — Bono