"Respect for character is always diminished in proportion……" — James Madison
"Respect for character is always diminished in proportion to the number among whom the blame or praise is to be divided."
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461 Quotes by James Madison
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- The characters and events depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is…
- Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish…
- If there be a principle that ought not to be questioned within the United States, it is that every man…
- It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be…
- Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
- Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant.
- A standing army is one of the greatest mischief that can possibly happen.
- War is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement
- The power to declare war, including the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and exclusively vested in…
- The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested…