"Who are to be the objects of popular……" — James Madison
"Who are to be the objects of popular choice? Every citizen whose merit may recommend him to the esteem and confidence of his country."
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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 Choice Quotes
This quote is filed under Choice Quotes,
one of 5,054 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
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Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason…
— Aristotle
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Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.
— Richard Bach
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I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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Yeah, I know, some people are against drunk driving, and I call those people 'the cops.' But you know, sometimes,…
— Dave Attell
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If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security,…
— Margaret Atwood
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Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the…
— Kevyn Aucoin
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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I'm an independent. I'm a centrist. A new generation is arriving that has grown up with a multiplicity of choice…
— John Avlon
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Even now, we make no apologies for the choice we made. The sacrifices we made were selfless. The options we…
— Ibrahim Babangida
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You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
— Richard Bach
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What I want to do is to make sure that we fully repeal Obamacare. This will be one of the…
— Michele Bachmann
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