"A just security to property is not afforded……" — James Madison
"A just security to property is not afforded by that government, under which unequal taxes oppress one species of property and reward another species."
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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 Afforded Quotes
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In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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Thus strength is afforded by good and thorough customs, thus is learnt the subjection of the individual, and strenuousness of…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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All this creative power of the mind amounts to no more than the faculty of compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing…
— David Hume
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All of my life I've spent a lot of time with gay men - Montgomery Clift, Jimmy Dean, Rock Hudson…
— Elizabeth Taylor
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The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.
— Marlon Brando
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We cannot see how the evidence afforded by the unquestioned progressive development of organised existence-crowned as it has been by…
— George Julius Poulett Scrope
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Mr Hooke sent, in his next letter [to Sir Isaac Newton] the whole of his Hypothesis, scil that the gravitation…
— John Aubrey
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It was critical to finding a way out. I had assumed young women knew the history of feminism and must…
— Betty Buckley
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I am from Britain and think it is right that as a woman I am paid the same as my…
— Emma Watson
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I support ensuring that committed gay couples have the same rights and responsibilities afforded to any married couple in this…
— Barack Obama
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Last time I checked, Congress was created to uphold the values of the Constitution, not the Bible and its biased…
— Barack Obama
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Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the unity of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of…
— Mary Somerville
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