"Besides the danger of a direct mixture of……" — James Madison
"Besides the danger of a direct mixture of religion and civil government, there is an evil which ought to be guarded against in the indefinite accumulation of property from the capacity of holding it in perpetuity by ecclesiastical corporations. The establishment of the chaplainship in Congress is a palpable violation of equal rights as well as of Constitutional principles. The danger of silent accumulations and encroachments by ecclesiastical bodies has not sufficiently engaged attention in the U.S."
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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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Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.
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I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.
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The decisive step in evolution, the first step toward macroevolution, the step from one species to another, requires another evolutionary…
— Richard Goldschmidt
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Women, who are a majority of the peoples of the earth, are indispensable to the accumulation of the kind of…
— Mahnaz Afkhami
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When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is…
— Cyril Connolly
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Courage is only an accumulation of small steps.
— Gyorgy Konrad
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It is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within, that constitutes true progress.
— Okakura Kakuzo
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Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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The secret to living a full life with no regrets and to staying young is to figure out what you…
— William J. Clinton
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We were not always 70, or rather our 70 is an accumulation of all the other ways we were. Our…
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Why should we all use our creative power....? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold…
— Brenda Ueland
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We live an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create the Declaration. Our…
— Calvin Coolidge
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