What is government itself but the greatest of all ... -James Madison

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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?

James Madison , President
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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....
Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other....
The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of ...
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next plac...
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted....
It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or s...
If men were angels, no government would be necessary....
The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world....
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....
The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home....

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I mean, you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you're wonderful every time you do something; I think that's human nature....
There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping o...
Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God....
For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all....
The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also....
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature....
Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fa...
To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and...
To conquer nature is, in effect, to remove all natural barriers and human norms and to substitute artificial, fabricated equivalents for natural proce...
Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake....