"The Convention thought it wrong to admit in……" — James Madison

"The Convention thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men."

— James Madison

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461 Quotes by James Madison

James Madison has 461 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The Alien bill proposed in the Senate is a monster that must forever disgrace its parents.
It was by the sober sense of our citizens that we were safely and steadily conducted from monarchy to republicanism,…
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…

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The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that. — J. J. Abrams
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. — Diane Ackerman
I hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit he's playing Jazz whether I like it or not. — Lester Bangs
We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to… — Dave Barry
I have not heard people in the Republican Party yet admit that they have a problem. And when they do… — Glenn Beck
At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took… — Kate Beckinsale
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors. — Ludwig van Beethoven
Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people's children and publicly admit they can do better… — Erma Bombeck
In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Sadly, I do my homework. I've a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United… — Bono
I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks. — Daniel Boone

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