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Good Quotes by James Madison
- The aim of every political Constitution, is or ought to be first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most…
- A zeal for different opinions concerning religion...[has] divided mankind into parties, inflamed them with mutual animosity, and rendered them much more disposed to vex and…
- It is a misfortune, inseparable from human affairs, that public measures are rarely investigated with that spirit of moderation which is essential to a just…
- Is it not the glory of the people of America, that whilst they have paid a decent regard to the opinions of former times and…
- The belief in a God All Powerful wise and good, is so essential to the moral order of the world and to the happiness of…
- A good government implies two things: first, fidelity to the object of government, which is the happiness of the people; secondly, a knowledge of the…
- If justice, good faith, honor, gratitude and all the other qualities which enoble the character of a nation, and fulfill the ends of Government be…
- But cool and candid people will at once reflect, that the purest of human blessings must have a portion of alloy in them, that the…
- It may well happen that the public voice, pronounced by the representatives of the people, will be more constant to the public good than if…
- That this liberty [of the press] is often carried to excess; that it has sometimes degenerated into licentiousness, is seen and lamented, but the remedy…
- If we resort for a criterion to the different principles on which different forms of government are established, we may define a republic to be,…
- The eyes of the world being thus on our Country, it is put the more on its good behavior, and under the greater obligation also,…
- Among the features peculiar to the political system of the United States, is the perfect equality of rights which it secures to every religious sectEqual…
- Because finally, 'the equal right of every citizen to the free exercise of his religion according to the dictates of conscience' is held by the…
- It is too early for politicians to presume on our forgetting that the public good, the real welfare of the great body of the people,…
- Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring…
- A good government implies two things: fidelity to the object of government, which is the happiness of the people; secondly, a knowledge of the means…
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- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle