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Bounds Quotes by James Madison
- Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one.
- The preservation of a free government requires not merely that the metes and bounds which separate each department of power be invariably maintained; but more…
- As compacts, charters of government are superior in obligation to all others, because they give effect to all others. As truths, none can be more…
More Bounds Quotes
- My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity. — Arthur Ashe
- We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs. — Saint Augustine
- A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds. — Teresa of Avila
- We are a nation of laws, and we will always act within the bounds of the law. — John O. Brennan
- The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds. — Samuel Butler
- Secrets of the incomprehensible wisdom of God, unknown to any besides Himself! Man, sprung up only of a few days, wants to… — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
- People talk about imitating Christ, and imitate Him in the little trifling formal things, such as washing the feet, saying His prayer,… — Florence Nightingale
- Aspire, break bounds. Endeavor to be good, and better still, best. — Robert Browning
- Not stepping over the bounds of modesty. — William Shakespeare
- I always think before an important shot: What is the worst that can happen on this shot? I can whiff it, shank… — Cary Middlecoff
- A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals. — Confucius
- Phantoms in general are nothing more than trifling disorders of the spirit; images we cannot contain within the bounds of sleep. — Luigi Pirandello