"In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted……" — James Madison
"In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by Power. In America ... charters of power [are] granted by liberty."
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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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I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just…
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What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear…
— Desi Arnaz
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When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.
— Arthur Ashe
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Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he…
— Bashar al-Assad
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Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and…
— Bashar al-Assad
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There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful…
— Chinua Achebe
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God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do…
— John James Audubon
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