"War is in fact the true nurse of…" — James Madison
"War is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement"
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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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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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The Constitution of the United States was created by the people of the United States composing the respective states, who…
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More Aggrandizement Quotes
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one of 18 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The whole fabric of our religion is based on superstitious beliefin lies that have been foisted upon us for ages…
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
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It is for the good of nations, and not for the emolument or aggrandizement of particular individuals, that government ought…
— Thomas Paine
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They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white…
— William Faulkner
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It is sometimes of God's mercy that men in the eager pursuit of worldly aggrandizement are baffled; for they are…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally…
— Charles Horton Cooley
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Boys, be ambitious. Be ambitious not for money, not for selfish aggrandizement, not for the evanescent thing which men call…
— William A. Clark
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Each of us is born with two contradictory sets of instructions: a conservative tendency, made up of instincts for self-preservation,…
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled towards absolute honesty, one…
— Glen Cook
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In LA, I mean, here's this place full of desperate and sad people who take their only pleasure from destroying…
— Heather Donahue
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The three branches of government number considerably more than three and are not, in any sense, 'branches' since that would…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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The object of every free government is the public good, and all lesser interests yield to it. That of every…
— Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger
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Well-being is possible to the degree to which one has overcome one's narcissism; to the degree to which one is…
— Erich Fromm
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