"There is no maxim, in my opinion, which……" — James Madison
"There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong."
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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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