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Numbers Quotes by James Madison
- In contemplating the pecuniary resources needed for the removal of such a number to so great a distance [freed slaves to Africa], my thoughts and…
- No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause . . . . With equal, nay with greater reason, bodies of men,…
- Inference is founded upon obvious reasons. Regard to reputation has a less active influence, when the infamy of a bad action is to be divided…
- Since it is impossible for the people spontaneously and universally, to move in concert towards their object; and it is therefore essential, that such changes…
- The smaller the number and the more permanent and conspicuous the station of men in power, the stronger must be the interest which they will…
- Respect for character is always diminished in proportion to the number among whom the blame or praise is to be divided.
- By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated…
- [T]he delegation of the government, in [a republic], to a small number of citizens elected by the rest . . . [is] to refine and…
- The number of individuals employed under the Constitution of the United States will be much smaller than the number employed under the particular States.
- The defect of power in the existing confederacy, to regulate the commerce between its several members is in the number of those which have been…
- Reason, on the contrary, assures us, that as in so great a number, a fit representative would be most likely to be found, so the…
- The apportionment of taxes on the various descriptions of property is an act which seems to require the most exact impartiality; yet there is, perhaps,…
- The invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents, but from acts…
- [Regarding legislative assemblies,] the number ought at most to be kept within a certain limit, in order to avoid the confusion and intemperance of a…
- The genius of Republican liberty, seems to demand on one side, not only that all power should be derived from the people; but, that those…
- In a free Government, the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. It consists in the one case in…
- A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
- The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of…
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- Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people… — Margaret Atwood
- There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me… — Chinua Achebe
- No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only… — Wystan Hugh Auden
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- It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on… — Paul Auster
- There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge,… — Charles Babbage