"The people are the only legitimate fountain of……" — James Madison
"The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived."
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James Madison
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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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To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history,…
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The Constitution is government's stop sign. It says, you - the three branches of government - can go so far…
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Respecting other people's cultures is well and good, but I draw the line at where some branches of Islam, what…
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The president of the branch in Atlanta was a pastor of a church, the Reverend Sam Williams, a wonderful guy.…
— Julian Bond
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Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books…
— Anthony Burgess
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The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.
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You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you…
— Rosalynn Carter
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When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the…
— Marc Chagall
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Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple…
— Lord Chesterfield
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I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not…
— Kate Chopin
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I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let…
— Yasser Arafat
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As the tree is fertilized by its own broken branches and fallen leaves, and grows out of its own decay,…
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