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Acts Quotes by James Madison
- Another advantage accruing from this ingredient in the constitution of a senate, is the additional impediment it must prove against improper acts of legislation. No…
- The invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents, but from acts…
- Attempts to enforce by legal sanctions, acts obnoxious to so great a proportion of Citizens, tend to enervate the laws in general, and to slacken…
- What is to be the consequence, in case the Congress shall misconstrue this part [the necessary and proper clause] of the Constitution and exercise powers…
- In proportion to the value of this revolution; in proportion to the importance of instruments, every word of which decides a question between power and…
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- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- The act of dying is one of the acts of life. — Marcus Aurelius
- Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul. — Teresa of Avila
- What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of… — Sai Baba
- We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most… — Philip James Bailey
- A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs. — Bernard Baruch
- Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of… — Joseph Addison
- The real 'action' in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself. This is… — Pope Benedict XVI
- Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he… — Alfred Adler
- He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence. — William Blake
- Most recently, terrorist forces have captured Israeli soldiers and fired rockets into Israeli cities - both unprovoked. These acts of aggression deserve… — John Boehner