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Motive 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…
- When indeed Religion is kindled into enthusiasm, its force like that of other passions is increased by the sympathy of a multitude. But enthusiasm is…
- No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause . . . . With equal, nay with greater reason, bodies of men,…
- 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…
- This policy of supplying by opposite and rival interests, the defect of better motives, might be traced through the whole system of human affairs, both…
- Extend the sphere and you take in a greater variety of parties and interests; you make it less probable that a majority of the whole…
- Whatever may be the judgement pronounced on the competency of the architects of the Constitution, or whatever may be the destiny of the edifice prepared…
- [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…
- The citizens of the United States have peculiar motives to support the energy of their constitutional charters.
- There never was an assembly of men, charged with a great and arduous trust, who were more pure in their motives, or more exclusively or…
- [The proposed establishment] will have a . . . tendency to banish our Citizens. . . . To superadd a fresh motive to emigration by…
More Motive Quotes
- Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are… — Teresa of Avila
- Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed into regular… — Anna Letitia Barbauld
- You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain. — Stanley Baldwin
- If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You unsettle people… — J. G. Ballard
- Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own. — James M. Barrie
- That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel? — Joseph Addison
- God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or… — Henry Ward Beecher
- Would we not do well to have the pleasing of God as our motive rather than to try to elevate ourselves above… — Ezra Taft Benson
- We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but in our… — Mortimer Adler
- It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men. — Jean de la Bruyere
- We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men… — Robert Byrd
- We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive. — Lord Byron