"Wherever there is interest and power to do……" — James Madison

"Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done."

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461 Quotes by James Madison

James Madison has 461 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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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It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty;… — David Attenborough
I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how… — David Attenborough
It was regarded as a responsibility of the BBC to provide programs which have a broad spectrum of interest, and… — David Attenborough
Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of… — Sai Baba
Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path… — Irving Babbitt
A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is… — Alain Badiou
He who becomes a Muslim does so in his own interest. — Abu Bakr
I feel I'm two people: I have my interest in acting and I have a lot of other political interests… — Alec Baldwin
I've decided to run for the U.S. Senate because I believe Wisconsin families need a senator who will work hard… — Tammy Baldwin
The only thing I would unequivocally say is that I have never had any interest in romantic comedy I just… — Christian Bale
In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to… — Christian Bale

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