"Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and……" — James Madison
"Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one."
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James Madison
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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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More Bounds Quotes
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one of 239 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.
— Arthur Ashe
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We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
— Saint Augustine
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A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds.
— Teresa of Avila
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We are a nation of laws, and we will always act within the bounds of the law.
— John O. Brennan
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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
— Samuel Butler
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Secrets of the incomprehensible wisdom of God, unknown to any besides Himself! Man, sprung up only of a few days,…
— Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
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People talk about imitating Christ, and imitate Him in the little trifling formal things, such as washing the feet, saying…
— Florence Nightingale
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Aspire, break bounds. Endeavor to be good, and better still, best.
— Robert Browning
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Not stepping over the bounds of modesty.
— William Shakespeare
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I always think before an important shot: What is the worst that can happen on this shot? I can whiff…
— Cary Middlecoff
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A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals.
— Confucius
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Phantoms in general are nothing more than trifling disorders of the spirit; images we cannot contain within the bounds of…
— Luigi Pirandello
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