"The right of the citizens to bear arms……" — James Madison
"The right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the state shall not be questioned."
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461 Quotes by James Madison
James Madison has 461 quotes on this site.
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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 Arms Quotes
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When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
— Aristotle
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A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each…
— Rudolf Arnheim
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason…
— Marcus Aurelius
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I feel more comfortable when I'm lighter - I sleep better, I snore less, I have more endurance when I…
— Tyra Banks
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These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a…
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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Despite two decisions, in 2008 and 2010, by the U.S. Supreme Court unequivocally affirming that the Second Amendment to the…
— Bob Barr
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When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves.
— John Barrymore
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A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing…
— Clara Barton
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The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human…
— Charles Baudelaire
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For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture.
— Sarah Bernhardt
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The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse…
— Daniel Berrigan
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