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Means Quotes by James Madison
- American citizens are instrumental in carrying on a traffic in enslaved Africans, equally in violation of the laws of humanity and in defiance of those…
- Every man who loves peace, every man who loves his country, every man who loves liberty ought to have it ever before his eyes that…
- Is there a Legislative power in fact, not expressly prohibited by the Constitution, which might not, according to the doctrine of the Court, be exercised…
- I am unable to conceive that the state legislatures which must feel so many motives to watch, and which possess so many means of counteracting…
- How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations and establishments of…
- There is not a more important and fundamental principle in legislation, than that the ways and means ought always to face the public engagements; that…
- 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…
- The inference to which we are brought is that the causes of faction cannot be removed and that relief is only to be sought in…
- [T]he great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department consists in giving to those who administer each department the…
- To what expedient then shall we finally resort, for maintaining in practice the necessary partition of power among the several departments, as laid down in…
- There is not a more important and fundamental principle in legislation, than that the ways and means ought always to face the public engagements; that…
- The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
- 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…
- History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by…
- A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
- 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…
More Means Quotes
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it. — J. J. Abrams
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made… — J. J. Abrams
- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams
- In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand. — Neil Armstrong
- So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to… — Antonin Artaud
- The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another,… — Bashar al-Assad
- That's a problem. I mean, like any sort of growing startup organization, we are sort of overwhelmed by our growth. And that… — Julian Assange