"Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the…" — James Madison
"Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm."
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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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The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.
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Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the…
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I would rather a boy learnt in the roughest school the courage to hit a politician, or gained in the…
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What most of us need, almost more than anything, is the courage and humility really to ask for help, from…
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The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man
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Nothing that results in human progress is achieved with unanimous consent. Those that are enlightened before the others are condemned…
— Christopher Columbus
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The idea of restraining the legislative authority, in the means of providing for the national defense, is one of those…
— Alexander Hamilton
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How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be American before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated,…
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Hence the saying: The enlightened ruler lays his plans well ahead; the good general cultivates his resources.
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An enlightened ruler doesnot worry about people not knowing him; he worriesabout not knowing people.
— Zhuge Liang
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