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Motives 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…
- 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…
- 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…
More Motives 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
- Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own. — James M. Barrie
- 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
- 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
- Do I get up every morning and ask: am I doing the things that I believe in and am I doing them… — Nick Clegg
- There may be in every government a few choice spirits, who may act from more worthy motives. One great error is that… — Alexander Hamilton
- We went all the way down the Himalayan chain for a day and a half. That was magnificent, except the Chinese told… — Richard Branson
- ...the crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei, out of… — Arthur Koestler
- We are all shot through with enough motives to make a massacre, any day of the week that we want to give… — Jacob Bronowski
- CAIR officials or former officials have been arrested on charges related to terrorism yet all it offers is silence and stonewalling in… — Paul Weyrich
- And yet the motives of women are so inscrutable. You remember the woman at Margate whom I suspected for the same reason.… — Arthur Conan Doyle
- Anyhow, all mankind's ideas and interests, all human aims and motives, are exhibited, fully formed, in a three-year-old child. The kid is… — P.J. O'Rourke