Madison Quotes

• ...several of the first presidents, including Jefferson and Madison, generally refused to issue public prayers, despite importunings to do so. Under pressure, Madison relented in the War Of 1812, but held to his belief that chaplains shouldn't be appointed to the military or be allowed to open Congress.

  James Madison

  Prayer, Military, War

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• To restore America we need less Marx and more Madison.

  Glenn Beck

  America, Needs

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• As Bob Dole found out, you can't keep a positive image while being your party's mouthpiece in Congress. That's why no legislative leader since James Madison has ever been elected president.

  Dick Morris

  Positive, Party, Leader

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• It's amazing to see places like Madison Square Garden on the schedule again.

  Roger Taylor

  Garden, Squares, Schedules

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• Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Powerful, Yield, Demand

  Marshall McLuhan, Matie Molinaro, Corinne McLuhan, William Toye (1987). “Letters of Marshall McLuhan”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Men of Virginia, countrymen of Washington, of Patrick Henry, of Jefferson, and of Madison, will ye be true to your constitutional faith?

  Caleb Cushing

  Men, Virginia, Being True

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• They say that Madison Avenue will only pay high dollars in advertising if they get the 18-35 age range.

  Sharon Gless

  Age, Dollars, Pay

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• You know why Madison Avenue advertising has never done well in Harlem? We're the only ones who know what it means to be Brand X.

  Dick Gregory

  Mean, Done, Advertising

  Dick Gregory (1966). “From the Back of the Bus”

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• I have a lot of memories of Falls Church. I went to grade school in Madison Elementary School.

  Jim Fowler

  Memories, Fall, School

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• I mean Buckingham Palace has never hired a professional public relations outfit let alone a Madison Avenue type and they would throw up their hands in horror at the very idea.

  Anthony Holden

  Mean, Hands, Ideas

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• If I'm walking very, very fast down Madison Avenue in the middle of the day, I'll say I'm stopped 10 times.

  Kristin Davis

  Middle, Walking, Avenues

  "Charlotte's web" by Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2002.

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• In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings.

  Norman Lear

  Leadership, People, Office

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. April 27, 2005.

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• Everyone assumes America must play the leading role in crafting some settlement or compromise between the Israelis and the Palestinians. But Jefferson, Madison, and Washington explicitly warned against involving ourselves in foreign conflicts.

  Ron Paul

  Play, America, Roles

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• Other than motherhood, the eight years that I spent at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, I have incredibly fond memories of. It's a beautiful place, with four seasons up in Wisconsin. And really wonderful people.

  Laurel Clark

  Beautiful, Memories, Motherhood

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• [Hillary Clinton] spent hundreds of millions of dollars on an advertising - you know, they get Madison Avenue into a room.

  Donald Trump

  Dollars, Rooms, Advertising

  Source: time.com

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• As a private person, I have a passion for landscape, and I have never seen one improved by a billboard. Where every prospect pleases, man is at his vilest when he erects a billboard. When I retire from Madison Avenue, I am going to start a secret society of masked vigilantes who will travel around the world on silent motor bicycles, chopping down posters at the dark of the moon. How many juries will convict us when we are caught in these acts of beneficent citizenship?

  David Ogilvy

  Passion, Dark, Moon

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• There is nothing Madison Avenue can give us that will make us more beautiful women. We are beautiful because God created us that way.

  Marianne Williamson

  Beautiful, Giving, Self Love

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “A Woman's Worth”, p.30, Ballantine Books

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• I can sell out Madison Square Garden masturbating

  Mike Tyson

  Garden, Squares, Boxing

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• You're damn right I do. I'm in Madison Square Garden getting the s*** knocked out of me

  Willie Pastrano

  Funny, Garden, Squares

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• I remember what a thrill it was to go from the back streets of Birmingham to Madison Square Garden in New York...it's like playing on Mars. You can't buy that.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  New York, Garden, Squares

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• I Google myself pretty often. I usually find something about All Time Low or my break-up with Holly [Madison].

  Jack Barakat

  Hollies, Google, All Time Low

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• How were the receipts today in Madison Square Garden ?

  P. T. Barnum

  Garden, Squares, Today

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• I did large drawings of couples having sex! Men and woman enjoying intercourse and oral sex in a Madison Avenue Gallery? That was the first time I broke a barrier that made me think, some idiot is going to blow my brains out for sure.

  Betty Dodson

  Sex, Couple, Thinking

  "Betty Dodson's Feminist Sex Wars". Interview with Melissa Gira Grant, www.truth-out.org. December 16, 2013.

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• Madison understood that if you want to protect rights from government abuse, you would be wise not to give government the power in the first place that can be used to abuse rights. That is a lesson we have forgotten. As we have asked government to do more and more for us, we have forgotten that a government big enough to give us everything we want will be powerful enough to take everything we have.

  Roger Pilon

  Wise, Powerful, Rights

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• It [culture] invites people to diminish themselves, and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines, meme processors of memes passed down from Madison Avenue, and Hollywood, and what have you.

  Terence McKenna

  People, Hollywood, Culture

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