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Take Quotes by James Madison
- It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of citizens…
- The aim of every political Constitution, is or ought to be first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most…
- 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…
- How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations and establishments of…
- I own myself the friend to a very free system of commerce, and hold it as a truth, that commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive…
- Extend the sphere and you take in a greater variety of parties and interests; you make it less probable that a majority of the whole…
- 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,…
- In order to judge of the form to be given to this institution the Senate, it will be proper to take a view of the…
- We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
- If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens…
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