Quote by James Madison Download Open image ““The Presidency alone unites the conjectures of the public.”” — James Madison ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“It's become the incredible shrinking presidency in terms of access, and in my opinion, we are all being shortchanged.” — Helen Thomas Copy Share Image
“Thus, we consider this case against the background of a profound national commitment to the principle that debate on public issues should be uninhibited,… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
“Therefore, it is in our mutual interests to cause unrest and chaos within America. The new American president is a weak man.” — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
“The idea that the president has the power to craft a new strategy both overstates his power and understates the power of reality crafted… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
“Are we still a self-determining people resistant to the freedom-devouring proclivities of an imperial presidency?” — Andrew McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Even if each of our realities is unique, our common cultures and environments ensure that we share some fundamental principles. That is what enables… — Brooke Gladstone Copy Share Image
“Quiet people avoid the question of the Presidency, for there will be a new election in three years and a half, and party feeling… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“this was another—and to some quite the ultimate—example of how difficult it was for the president to function in a literal, definitional, lawyerly, cause-and-effect… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“In never-ending efforts to defeat incumbent officeholders in hard times, the public is perpetuating the source of its discontent, electing a new group of… — Thomas E. Mann Copy Share Image
“It is part of the trivialization of politics that we give endless attention to the inner life of the politician - his private thoughts,… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives. A… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Rulers who wished to subvert the public liberty, may have found an established Clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just Government instituted to secure & perpetuate… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments… — James Madison Copy Share Image
How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations and establishments… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It is certain that every class is interested in [educational] establishments which give to the human mind its highest improvements, and to every Country… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Since it is impossible for the people spontaneously and universally, to move in concert towards their object; and it is therefore essential, that such… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The definition of the right of suffrage is very justly regarded as a fundamental article of republican government. — James Madison Copy Share Image
The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded. — James Madison Copy Share Image
They can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the great mass… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The effect of a representative democracy is to refine and enlarge the public views, by passing them through the medium of a chosen body… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“... But besides the danger of a direct mixture of Religion & civil Government , there is an evil which ought to be guarded… — James Madison Copy Share Image