"In the first place, it is to be……" — James Madison
"In the first place, it is to be remembered, that the general government is not to be charged with the whole power of making and administering laws. Its jurisdiction is limited to certain enumerated objects, which concern all the members of the republic, but which are not to be attained by the separate provisions of any."
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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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they have no business administering government policies in a country that favors freedom and equality. ... Can you imagine having…
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On the one hand, then, in the reproductive functions proper-menstruation, defloration, pregnancy and parturition-woman is biologically doomed to suffer. Nature…
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The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.
— Andrew Jackson
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The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how…
— Jacques Barzun
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A remedy for masturbation which is almost always successful in small boys is circumcision, especially when there is any degree…
— John Harvey Kellogg
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IF THE TRUE MEASURE OF A BOOK is to be found in the perfume that remains behind when all the…
— Rupert Spira
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Hospitality invites to prayer before it checks credentials, welcomes to the table before administering the entrance exam.
— Patrick Henry
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I believe the National Park Service has demonstrated strong partnerships geared towards respecting the private property of citizens in its…
— Zach Wamp
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I would rather have as my patron a host of anonymous citizens digging into their own pockets for the price…
— John Updike
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I believe that the public temper is such that the voters of the land are prepared to support the party…
— Grover Cleveland
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You [the teacher] do not merely insert a lot of facts, if you teach them [the students] properly. It is…
— Gilbert Highet
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Giving governors more leeway in administering health care could represent a small, positive development in the ongoing saga of Obamacare.…
— Fred Upton
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