"[I]n the next place, to show that unless……" — James Madison
"[I]n the next place, to show that unless these departments be so far connected and blended as to give to each a constitutional control over the others, the degree of separation which the maxim requires, as essential to a free government, can never in practice be duly maintained."
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James Madison
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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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What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?
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GN'R was five guys who were all into different things. I liked pop and disco, Izzy was into New York…
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I like to say magic is the world's second oldest profession, a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that, throughout the…
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A great state is a well-blended mash of something of all the people and all of none of the people.…
— Zora Neale Hurston
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He, who has blended the useful with the sweet, has gained every point .
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For every life and every act consequence of good and evil can be shown and as in time results of…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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While the vaccine discovery was progressive, the joy I felt at the prospect before me of being the instrument destined…
— Edward Jenner
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The best blended Scotch in the history of the world - which was also the favourite drink of the Iraqi…
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I would get songs sung to me, like 'Old Man River, 'or kids would call me Mississippi and things like…
— River Phoenix
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FAITH is the head chemist of the mind. When FAITH is blended with the vibration of thought, the subconscious mind…
— Napoleon Hill
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New Orleans had a great tradition of celebration. Opera, military marching bands, folk music, the blues, different types of church…
— Wynton Marsalis
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Homes should be an anchor, a safe harbor, a place of refuge, a place where families dwell together, a place…
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