"A republic, by which I mean a government……" — James Madison
"A republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect and promises the cure for which we are seeking."
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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 Cure Quotes
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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
— Jane Austen
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Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself…
— Honore de Balzac
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You're on earth. There's no cure for that.
— Samuel Beckett
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle…
— Alfred Adler
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The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender…
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Normally, I love to go to the movies and when I see a character portrayed by different actors at different…
— Jeff Bridges
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Science has been quite embattled. It's the most important thing there is. An arts graduate is not going to fix…
— Bill Bryson
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Absence - that common cure of love.
— Lord Byron
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Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to…
— Joseph Campbell
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Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the…
— John Jay Chapman
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