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War 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…
- War is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement
- The power to declare war, including the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature.
- The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested in war, and most prone…
- Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.…
- 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…
- 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…
- It is a principle incorporated into the settled policy of America, that as peace is better than war, war is better than tribute.
- The fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defense against real, pretended, or imaginary dangers from…
- As the war was just in its origin and necessary and noble in its objects, we can reflect with a proud satisfaction that in carrying…
- 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…
- What becomes of the surplus of human life? It is either, 1st. destroyed by infanticide, as among the Chinese and Lacedemonians; or 2d. it is…
- Those who are to conduct a war cannot in the nature of things, be proper or safe judges, whether a war ought to be commenced,…
- 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…
- If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
- No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
- The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
- It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from…
- Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
- War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which…
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