"How could a readiness for war in time……" — James Madison
"How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations and establishments of every hostile nation?"
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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 Establishment Quotes
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Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may…
— Ambrose Bierce
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At a time when 2500 American soldiers have given their lives for the cause of bringing democracy to Iraq, it…
— Earl Blumenauer
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The establishment of Zionist regime was a move by the world oppressor against the Islamic world.
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts.
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.
— Art Buchwald
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The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of…
— John C. Calhoun
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People call me wild. Not really though, I'm not.I guess I've never been normal, not what you call Establishment. I'm…
— Johnny Cash
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There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political…
— Noam Chomsky
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I'm interested in people who have to overcome obstacles, people who are not sheltered by the umbrella of the establishment,…
— Isabel Allende
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Hippy is an establishment label for a profound, invisible, underground, evolutionary process. For every visible hippy, barefoot, beflowered, beaded, there…
— Timothy Leary
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The endeavor to keep alive any hoary establishment beyond its natural date is often pernicious and always useless.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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this last establishment will probably be within a mile of Charlottesville, and four from Monticello, if the system should be…
— Thomas Jefferson
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