"There is a degree of depravity in mankind……" — James Madison

"There is a degree of depravity in mankind which requires a certain degree of circumspection and distrust."

— 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.
It was by the sober sense of our citizens that we were safely and steadily conducted from monarchy to republicanism,…
The characters and events depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is…
Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish…
If there be a principle that ought not to be questioned within the United States, it is that every man…
It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be…
Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant.
A standing army is one of the greatest mischief that can possibly happen.
War is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement
The power to declare war, including the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and exclusively vested in…
The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested…

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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
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Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
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To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love. — Jane Austen

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