"The protection of these faculties is the first……" — James Madison
"The protection of these faculties is the first object of government."
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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 Faculties Quotes
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God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us…
— Teresa of Avila
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The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen…
— Francis Bacon
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In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as…
— Frederic Bastiat
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The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and…
— Annie Besant
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As a man may be born with a mathematical faculty, and by training that faculty year after year may immensely…
— Annie Besant
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Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.
— Hugh Blair
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I want to have all of my faculties.
— Jeff Bridges
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My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone…
— Smedley Butler
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To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment…
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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All the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature; and...however wide any of them may seem to…
— David Hume
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Man is not the most majestic of the creatures; long before the mammals even, the dinosaurs were far more splendid.…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Organs, faculties, powers, capacities, or whatever else we call them; grow by use and diminish from disuse, it is inferred…
— Herbert Spencer
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