"[The proposed establishment] will have a . .……" — James Madison
"[The proposed establishment] will have a . . . tendency to banish our Citizens. . . . To superadd a fresh motive to emigration by revoking the liberty which they now enjoy, would be the same species of folly which has dishonoured and depopulated flourishing kingdoms."
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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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May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable…
— Daniel Boone
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Admit sin, and you banish prayer. But, on the other hand, entertain, and encourage, and practice prayer, and sin will…
— Alexander Whyte
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Why does man regret, even though he may endeavour to banish any such regret, that he has followed the one…
— Charles Darwin
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This is the first generation in all of recorded history that can do something about the scourge of poverty. We…
— Hubert H. Humphrey
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Four specters haunt the Poor - Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are…
— David Lloyd George
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Time is the thief you cannot banish.
— Phyllis McGinley
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If there is one thing which I would banish from the earth it is fear.
— Henry Ford
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Give up all bad qualities in you, banish the ego and develop the spirit of surrender. You will then experience…
— Sathya Sai Baba
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Banish (the onion) from the kitchen and the pleasure flies with it. Its presence lends color and enchantment to the…
— Elizabeth Robins Pennell
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[Science] dissipates errors born of ignorance about our true relations with nature, errors the more damaging in that the social…
— Pierre-Simon Laplace
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If there is one thing I would banish from earth, it is fear. And the only way to do that…
— Henry Ford
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Banish the onion from the kitchen and the pleasure flies with it.
— Elizabeth Robins Pennell
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