Quote by James Madison
A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstru

A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States. – James Madison

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To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea. – James Madison

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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority. – James Madison

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I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness. – Lord Byron

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The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. – Author Unknown

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The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted. – Jonathan Edwards

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If the day and night be such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more immortal — that is your success. All nature is your congratulation, and you have cause momentarily to bless yourself. – Henry David Thoreau, Walden

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Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress. – Milan Kundera

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God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world. – Paul Dirac

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Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends. – Mary Catherwood

The moon is nothing but a circumambulating aphrodisiac divinely subsidized to provoke the world into a rising birth-rate. – Christopher Fry

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