James Madison Quotes About Failing

Quotes about: Failing

• The growing wealth aquired by them corporations never fails to be a source of abuses.

  James Madison

  Abuse, Democracy, Growing

• There is an evil which ought to be guarded against in the indefinite accumulation of property from the capacity of holding it in perpetuity by...corporations. The power of all corporations ought to be limited in this respect. The growing wealth acquired by them never fails to be a source of abuses.

  James Madison

  Evil, Abuse, Growing

  "Monopolies, Perpetuities, Corporations, Ecclesiastical Endowments". Essay by James Madison, 1817 - 1832.

• Temporary deviations from fundamental principles are always more or less dangerous. When the first pretext fails, those who become interested in prolonging the evil will rarely be at a loss for other pretexts.

  James Madison

  Loss, Evil, Liberty

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

• A bad cause seldom fails to betray itself.

  James Madison

  Causes, Failing, Betray

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.189

• I am unable to conceive that the state legislatures which must feel so many motives to watch, and which possess so many means of counteracting the federal legislature, would fail either to detect or to defeat a conspiracy of the latter against the liberties of their common constituencies.

  James Madison

  Mean, Liberty, Federalism

• [Regarding legislative assemblies,] the number ought at most to be kept within a certain limit, in order to avoid the confusion and intemperance of a multitude. In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever characters composed, passion never fails to wrest the scepter from reason. Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.

  James Madison

  Character, Passion, Order

  James Madison, John Jay (1901). “The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States”

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