"[T]he great security against a gradual concentration of……" — James Madison
"[T]he great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department consists in giving to those who administer each department the necessary constitutional means and personal motives to resist encroachment of the others."
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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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More Administer Quotes
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Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of…
— Andrew Carnegie
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We must be careful how we flatter fools too little, or wise men too much, for the flatterer must act…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think.
— Adolf Hitler
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If they prescribe pain killers that may increase the possibility of death so long as their specific intention was not…
— Joe Lieberman
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It is better to give love. Hatred is a low and degrading motion and is so poisonous that no man…
— Thomas Dreier
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Any man who is intelligent must, on considering that health is of the utmost value to human beings, have the…
— Hippocrates
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Non-cooperation is directed not against men but against measures. It is not directed against the Governors, but against the system…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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I regret that it has been necessary for me in this lecture to administer a large dose of four-dimensional geometry.…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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If the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted . .…
— Noah Webster
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If our free society is to endure, those who govern must recognize human dignity and accept the enforcement of constitutional…
— William J. Brennan
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It is a misfortune incident to republican government, though in a less degree than to other governments, that those who…
— James Madison
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To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem.
— Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau
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