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Maxims Quotes by James Madison
- [I]n the next place, to show that unless these departments be so far connected and blended as to give to each a constitutional control over…
- There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that…
- The means of defence against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to…
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- It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. — Aristotle
- There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with… — John Adams
- Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. — John Quincy Adams
- I understand that government should live within its means, value the money it holds in trust from you the taxpayer, avoid waste… — Tony Abbott
- To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one… — James Buchanan
- There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around. — Vinton Cerf
- I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal… — Miguel de Cervantes
- Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and… — Henri Frederic Amiel