"That useful alterations will be suggested by experience,……" — James Madison
"That useful alterations will be suggested by experience, could not but be foreseen . . . . It moreover equally enables the general and state governments to originate the amendment of errors as they may be pointed out by the experience on one side or on the other."
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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 Alterations Quotes
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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.
— Faith Baldwin
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Changes... can only be effected by alterations in the original. The only thing not prerecorded in a prerecorded universe are…
— William S. Burroughs
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Biologists have long attempted by chemical means to induce in higher organisms predictable and specific changes which thereafter could be…
— Oswald Avery
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The fact that Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment, is nowhere better illustrated than in the…
— Robert Andrews Millikan
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"Pieces" almost always appear 'as parts' in whole processes. ... To sever a "'part" from the organized whole in which…
— Max Wertheimer
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It is hard to resist the impression that the present structure of the universe, apparently so sensitive to minor alterations…
— Paul Davies
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Fashion is more about taste than money - you have to understand your body and tailor clothes to your needs;…
— Carmen Dell'Orefice
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Now, there is always a tremendous fear of science and progressing forward into areas of the unknown and it is…
— Nick Nolte
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The world is what you make of it, friend. If it doesn’t fit, you make alterations.
— Linda Hunt
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How to achieve such anomalies, such alterations and re-fashionings of reality so what comes out of it are lies, if…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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It is as though the practices organizing a bustling city were characterized by [city practitioners', everyday citizens'] blindness. The neworks…
— Michel de Certeau
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As the practical value of altering consciousness becomes recognized, procedures to effect these alterations will become increasingly ordinary and unremarkable.…
— Michael Crichton
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