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Too 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 liberal appropriations made by the legislature of Kentucky for a general system of education cannot be too much applauded . . . . Learned…
- There is in every breast a sensibility to marks of honor, of favor, of esteem, and of confidence, which, apart from all considerations of interest,…
- The sober people of America are weary of the fluctuating policy which has directed the public councils. They have seen with regret and indignation that…
- Measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of…
- The belief in a God All Powerful wise and good, is so essential to the moral order of the world and to the happiness of…
- It is a melancholy reflection that liberty should be equally exposed to danger whether the government have too much power or too little power and…
- But the mild voice of reason, pleading the cause of an enlarged and permanent interest, is but too often drowned, before public bodies as well…
- For the same reason that the members of the State legislatures will be unlikely to attach themselves sufficiently to national objects, the members of the…
- [Y]ou will understand the game behind the curtain too well not to perceive the old trick of turning every contingency into a resource for accumulating…
- It is too early for politicians to presume on our forgetting that the public good, the real welfare of the great body of the people,…
- The danger of disturbing the public tranquillity by interesting too strongly the public passions, is a still more serious objection against a frequent reference of…
- In no part of the Constitution is more wisdom to be found than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace to…
- The American people are too well schooled in the duty and practice of submitting to the will of the majority to permit any serious uneasiness…
- With regard to Banks, they have taken too deep and too wide a root in social transactions, to be got rid of altogether, if that…
- Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring…
- Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it…
- The principles and modes of governments are too important to be disregarded by an inquisitive mind and I think are well worthy a critical examination…
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