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First Principles: In All Very Numerous Assemblies, of Whatever Character Composed, Passion Never Fails To Wrest the Scepter From Reason
“In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever character composed, passion never fails to wrest the sceptre from reason.” – James Madison (1788)
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First Principles: In All Very Numerous Assemblies, of Whatever Character Composed, Passion Never Fails To Wrest the Scepter From Reason
“In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever character composed, passion never fails to wrest the scepter from reason.” – James Madison , Federalist No. 55 (February 15,1788)
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Thought For the Day: Taught From Their Infancy That Beauty Is Woman’s Sceptre, the Mind Shapes Itself To the Body, and Roaming Round Its Gilt Cage, Only Seeks To Adorn Its Prison
“Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman’s sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.” – Mary Wollstonecraft, reformer and writer (27 Apr 1759-1797)
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First Principles: In All Very Numbers Assemblies, of Whatever Character Composed, Passion Never Fails To Wrest the Scepter From Reason
“In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever character composed, passion never fails to wrest the sceptre from reason.” – James Madison (1788)
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First Principles: Passion Never Fails to Wrest the Scepter From Reason
“In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever character composed, passion never fails to wrest the sceptre from reason.” – James Madison (1788)
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First Principles: Passion Never Fails To Wrest the Scepter From Reason
“In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever character composed, passion never fails to wrest the sceptre from reason. … Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.” – Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. … Continue reading
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First Principles: Beware of the Passion That Wrests the Scepter From Reason
“In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever character composed, passion never fails to wrest the sceptre from reason.” – James Madison, Federalist 55
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