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Such Quotes by James Madison
- That diabolical Hell conceived principle of persecution rages amoung some and to their eternal Infamy the Clergy can furnish their Quota of Imps for such…
- It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage and such only as he believes to be acceptable to him.…
- It is due to justice; due to humanity; due to truth; due to the sympathies of our nature; in fine, to our character as a…
- In contemplating the pecuniary resources needed for the removal of such a number to so great a distance [freed slaves to Africa], my thoughts and…
- No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause . . . . With equal, nay with greater reason, bodies of men,…
- Since it is impossible for the people spontaneously and universally, to move in concert towards their object; and it is therefore essential, that such changes…
- It may not be easy, in every possible case, to trace the line of separation between the rights of religion and the Civil authority with…
- To refer the power in question to the clause "to provide for the common defense and general welfare" would be contrary to the established and…
- But ambitious encroachments of the federal government, on the authority of the State governments, would not excite the opposition of a single State, or of…
- The appointment of senators by the state legislatures . . . is recommended by the double advantage of favoring a select appointment, and of giving…
- The most that the Convention could do in such a situation, was to avoid the errors suggested by the past experience of other countries, as…
- We may be assured by past experience, that such a practice [as some states charging high taxes on goods from other states] would be introduced…
- The best reason to be assigned, in this case, for not having made the Constitution more free from a charge of uncertainty in its meaning,…
- 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…
- The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to which all such institutions must be sacrificed.
- Procrastination in the beginning and precipitation towards the conclusion is the characteristic of such bodies.
- The Constitution expressly and exclusively vests in the Legislature the power of declaring a state of war [and] the power of raising armies.... A delegation…
- 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…
- The preservation of a free government requires not merely that the metes and bounds which separate each department of power be invariably maintained; but more…
- Money cannot be applied to the *general welfare*, otherwise than by an application of it to some *particular* measure conducive to the general welfare. Whenever,…
- May it not be asked of every intelligent friend to the liberties of his country, whether the power exercised in such an act as this…
- I have sometimes thought there could be no stronger testimony in favor of Religion or against temporal Enjoyments even the most rational and manly than…
- Congress shall never disarm any citizen unless such as are or have been in actual rebellion.
- A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the…
- 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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