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Quote by James Madison
Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will gener

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done. – James Madison

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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty. – James Madison

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The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war. – James Madison

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

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The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy. – John Maynard Keynes

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Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen. – Thomas Carlyle

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To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole. – Baruch Spinoza

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The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive. – Edward Gibbon

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I dont excercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor. – Joan Rivers

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I have tried at every point to seek Gods wisdom on the decisions I made, and I made it my business to speak up on behalf of the things God tells us are important to Him. – Jesse Helms

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