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Quote by James Madison
If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffr

If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason. – James Madison

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The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived. – James Madison

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Government
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Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad. – James Madison

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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power. – James Madison

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Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth. – Wole Soyinka

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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said. – Mel Brooks

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Truth is lifes most precious commodity. – Edwin Louis Cole

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A lot of guys go, Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism. I tell em, I dont know any. They want me to make one up. I dont make em up. I dont even know when I say it. Theyre the truth. And it is the truth. I dont know. – Yogi Berra

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After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration. – Harry Seidler

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I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal narrative. That has always been the appealing voice in poetry. It started for me lyrically in Shakespeares sonnets. – Diane Wakoski

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