"Whatever may be the judgement pronounced on the……" — James Madison
"Whatever may be the judgement pronounced on the competency of the architects of the Constitution, or whatever may be the destiny of the edifice prepared by them, I feel it a duty to express my profound and solemn conviction . . . that there never was an assembly of men, charged with a great and arduous trust, who were more pure in their motives, or more exclusively or anxiously devoted to the object committed to them."
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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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Let us serve Him faithfully as our Master. Let us obey Him loyally as our King. Let us study His…
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... we believe in the vocation of communion and participation of our people, who day to day awaken to their…
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Do not seek so anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences to be played on; it is…
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I wish most anxiously to see my much loved America - it is the Country from whence all reformations must…
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They say I'm young, but my purpose is the inspiration of a nation, innovation 'till I change the talk into…
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The greatest mission of woman is to give life, earth-life, through honorable marriage, to the waiting spirits, our Father's spirit…
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Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment…
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And so today, the undermining of the home and family is on the increase, with the devil anxiously working to…
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The greatest gift . . . is the realization that life does not consist either of wallowing in the past…
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While waiting for promised blessings, one should not mark time, for to fail to move forward is to some degree…
— Howard W. Hunter
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I beg of you, you who could and should be bearing and rearing a family: Wives, come home from the…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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We have said that the State must not absorb the individual or the family; both should be allowed free and…
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