"A watchful eye must be kept on ourselves……" — James Madison
"A watchful eye must be kept on ourselves lest while we are building ideal monuments of Renown and Bliss here we neglect to have our names enrolled in the Annals of Heaven."
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461 Quotes by James Madison
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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 Annals Quotes
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The entire annals of Observation probably do not elsewhere exhibit so extraordinary a verification of any theoretical conjecture adventured on…
— Unknown Author
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Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The Gothic idea that we were to look backwards instead of forwards for the improvement of the human mind, and…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Poets need be in no degree jealous of the geologists. The stony science, with buried creations for its domains, and…
— Hugh Miller
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Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books!
— Thomas Carlyle
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Pet lovers know that animals sometimes understand us better than we do, and the annals of human sin and desire…
— Tony Snow
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If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage,-and both qualities are…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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This devotion, so great and so confident, to the august Queen of Heaven, has never forth with such brilliancy as…
— Pope Leo X
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In the annals of science fiction, where dystopias rule the imaginative roost, Star Trek stood nearly alone in telling us…
— Charles Shaar Murray
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To a naturalist nothing is indifferent; the humble moss that creeps upon the stone is equally interesting as the lofty…
— James Hutton
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Never in the annals of software engineering was so much owed by so many to so few lines of code
— Martin Fowler
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In the annals of history, few men have left a more positive imprint on the world than Pope John Paul…
— Vito Fossella
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