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Whole Quotes by James Madison
- We have staked the whole future of our new nation, not upon the power of government; far from it. We have staked the future of…
- By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated…
- In the first place, it is to be remembered, that the general government is not to be charged with the whole power of making and…
- This policy of supplying by opposite and rival interests, the defect of better motives, might be traced through the whole system of human affairs, both…
- 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 people can never willfully betray their own interests: But they may possibly be betrayed by the representatives of the people; and the danger will…
- [In a democracy] a common passion or interest will, in almost every case , be felt by a majority of the whole; a communication and…
- I do not conceive that power is given to the President and Senate to dismember the empire, or to alienate any great, essential right. I…
- If it be asked what is to restrain the House of Representatives from making legal discriminations in favor of themselves and a particular class of…
- The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.…
- 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…
- Happily for America, happily, we trust, for the whole human race, they pursued a new and more noble course. They accomplished a revolution which has…
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