"[T]he most common and durable source of factions……" — James Madison
"[T]he most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society. Those who are creditors, and those who are debtors, fall under a like discrimination. A landed interest, a manufacturing interest, a mercantile interest, a moneyed interest, with many lesser interests, grow up of necessity in civilized nations, and divide them into different classes, actuated by different sentiments and views."
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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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By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole,…
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It wasn't a potential atonement actuated by the sinner, it was an actual atonement initiated by the savior.
— John F. MacArthur
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Those who have arrived at any very eminent degree of excellence in the practice of an art or profession have…
— John Knox
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A farmer, a hunter, a soldier, a reporter, even a philosopher, may be daunted; but nothing can deter a poet,…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Most political leaders acquire their position by causing large numbers of people to believe that these leaders are actuated by…
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That man is formed for social life is an observation which, upon our first inquiry, presents itself immediately to our…
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A man must be completely wanting in intelligence if he does not show it when actuated by love, malice, or…
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I believe that the purpose for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so…
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The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power
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