James Madison Quotes

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

James Madison

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: president
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 16, 1751 - June 28, 1836

Topics

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Childhood is a tricky business. Usually, something goes wrong.

Maurice Sendak

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Magic, like technology, is a tool.

Mercedes Lackey

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I don't really like hedging. To me, if something needs to be hedged, you shouldn't have a position in it.

Stanley Druckenmiller

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My mother and father, with my newborn brother and me in the backseat of the 1938 Ford sedan that would be our family car for the next decade, moved to that hastily constructed Army ammunition depot called Igloo, on the alkaline and sagebrush landscape of far southwestern South Dakota. I was three years old.

Tom Brokaw

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The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

Ronald Reagan

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In France they spend six months training policemen, then they give them a gun and put them on the streets, and I don't know that that's enough. The film's not against the police - although I think that if someone wants to be a cop there's got to be a problem.

Mathieu Kassovitz

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It's virtually impossible for most sites to do a billion page views in a month or even a year.

Ross Levinsohn

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When somebody asks me what a song or a line is about, I feel like I'm not done writing it yet.

Jason Isbell

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I started out printing silk screen t-shirts. I sold ink pens. I worked construction. I worked at a gas station. I pumped gas. I was a mechanic for a little bit. I went into sewers, down into sewer lines. I had a lot of somewhat unpleasant gigs for a time there.

Johnny Depp

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It would have been a very, very good thing if the next election after Margaret went we had lost.

Denis Thatcher

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When I did my spacewalks, it was during space station construction. So the shuttle was docked to the fledgling ISS at the time. So we would always stay tethered.

Chris Hadfield

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Every time I look through the lens with Denzel, I'm like a 12-year-old kid. It's hard for me to look at the monitor because the fun is in watching him.

Antoine Fuqua

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