"A dependence on the people is, no doubt,……" — James Madison
"A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions."
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461 Quotes by James Madison
James Madison has 461 quotes on this site.
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The Alien bill proposed in the Senate is a monster that must forever disgrace its parents.
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It was by the sober sense of our citizens that we were safely and steadily conducted from monarchy to republicanism,…
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The characters and events depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is…
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Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish…
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If there be a principle that ought not to be questioned within the United States, it is that every man…
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It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be…
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant.
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A standing army is one of the greatest mischief that can possibly happen.
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War is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement
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The power to declare war, including the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and exclusively vested in…
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The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested…
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More Auxiliary Quotes
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one of 25 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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besides the comfort of knowlege, every science is auxiliary to every other.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live; science, everything that sharpens the desire to know. Art, even the…
— Remy de Gourmont
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No experimental result can ever kill a theory: any theory can be saved from counterinstances either by some auxiliary hypothesis…
— Imre Lakatos
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But while property is considered as the basis of the freedom of the American yeomanry, there are other auxiliary supports;…
— Noah Webster
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Shall it any longer be said that a science [geology], which unfolds such abundant evidence of the Being and Attributes…
— William Buckland
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Geology has shared the fate of other infant sciences, in being for a while considered hostile to revealed religion; so…
— William Buckland
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Reason and Knowledge have always played a secondary, subordinate, auxiliary role in the life of peoples, and this will always…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Wrangel pretended to combat the Bolsheviks, Bolshevism is Jewry. In order to retain the favor of the Jews holding the…
— Boris Brasol
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The military has been tremendously important in the past during catastrophes and in protecting the population. But it shouldn't become…
— Otto Schily
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Superficial parallels were drawn between the Church and the Nazi Party, with its emphasis on active involvement by every member.…
— Fawn M. Brodie
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She was an auxiliary nurse but training to be a true nurse because that was her calling, to serve mankind.…
— Edna O'Brien
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The specifically human capacity for language enables children to provide for auxiliary tools in the solution of difficult tasks, to…
— Lev S. Vygotsky
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