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I had a house in Haiti, in the hills above the North Atlantic coast. The house appeared as if out of a dream: my dream to have a foothold in the country. Like many concepts do in Haiti, the phrase 'pied a terre' became literal, material.


Madison Smartt Bell

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JAMES MADISON The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of...
JAMES MADISON Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of t...
JAMES MADISON If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
JAMES MADISON I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and si...
JAMES MADISON We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from...
JAMES MADISON If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy
JAMES MADISON The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be lia...
JAMES MADISON Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over...
JAMES MADISON Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of...
JAMES MADISON I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse, and in a Republican Government a greater...
JAMES MADISON In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the ...
JAMES MADISON Indulging no passions which trespass on the rights or the repose of other nations, it has been the t...
JAMES MADISON Each State, in ratifying the Constitution, is considered as a sovereign body, independent of all oth...
JAMES MADISON But ambitious encroachments of the federal government, on the authority of the State governments, wo...
JAMES MADISON As a Texan, I say ma'm and sir to my age contemporaries and open doors for anyone that I can. This g...
TIFFANY MADISON And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that...
JAMES MADISON A watchful eye must be kept on ourselves, lest while we are building ideal monuments of renown and b...
JAMES MADISON I don't want to be too strict, because I think kids can get rebellious, but I want to raise my d...
HOLLY MADISON I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Governm...
JAMES MADISON In all great changes of established governments, forms ought to give way to substance
JAMES MADISON The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of...
JAMES MADISON Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted th...
JAMES MADISON The Constitution of the United States was created by the people of the United States composing the r...
JAMES MADISON completely and utterly untrue.
JAMES MADISON Keep within the requisite limits a standing military force, always remembering that an armed and tra...
JAMES MADISON I don't get jealous of other girls, because I was... raised in a cloning lab to be the perfect w...
HOLLY MADISON Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up...
JAMES MADISON Women's liberation is one thing, but the permeation of anti-male sentiment in post-modern popular cu...
TIFFANY MADISON The last couple relationships I had were long distance. It's not like I can make much of an effo...
HOLLY MADISON