"By a faction, I understand a number of……" — James Madison
"By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest....The...causes of faction are sown in the nature of man."
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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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[T]he most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold…
— James Madison
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It wasn't a potential atonement actuated by the sinner, it was an actual atonement initiated by the savior.
— John F. MacArthur
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Those who have arrived at any very eminent degree of excellence in the practice of an art or profession have…
— John Knox
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A farmer, a hunter, a soldier, a reporter, even a philosopher, may be daunted; but nothing can deter a poet,…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Most political leaders acquire their position by causing large numbers of people to believe that these leaders are actuated by…
— Bertrand Russell
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That man is formed for social life is an observation which, upon our first inquiry, presents itself immediately to our…
— Joseph Warren
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A man must be completely wanting in intelligence if he does not show it when actuated by love, malice, or…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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I believe that the purpose for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so…
— Siegfried Sassoon
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The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power
— Bertrand Russell
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