"Those who are to conduct a war cannot……" — James Madison
"Those who are to conduct a war cannot in the nature of things, be proper or safe judges, whether a war ought to be commenced, continued, or concluded."
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James Madison
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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 Commenced Quotes
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The age of ignorance commenced with the Christian system.
— Thomas Paine
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We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the…
— William Hazlitt
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Man, whose organization is regarded as the highest, departs from the vertebrate archetype; and it is because the study of…
— Charles Lyell
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When news of the surrender first reached our lines our men commenced firing a salute of a hundred guns in…
— Ulysses S. Grant
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Great revolutions, whatever may be their causes, are not lightly commenced, and are not concluded with precipitation.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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There is but One God, His name is Truth, He is the Creator, He fears none, he is without hate,…
— Guru Nanak
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Opposition to God and His Christ, opposition to light and truth has existed since the beginning to the present day.…
— Wilford Woodruff
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A lean, loose-jointed Negro had commenced plunking a guitar beside me while I slept. His clothes were rags; his feet…
— William Christopher Handy
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Now we see how the astronomical evidence supports the biblical view of the origin of the world. The details differ,…
— Robert Jastrow
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Mathematics as a science, commenced when first someone, probably a Greek, proved propositions about "any" things or about "some" things,…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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My combat action has commenced... I've pissed my pants, but only a little.
— Anthony Swofford
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I have commenced my auspicious reign and am in quiet possession of the Presidential Mansion... this winter I intend to…
— Unknown Author
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