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Best One Quotes by James Madison
- Place three individuals in a situation wherein the interest of each depends on the voice of the others, and give to two of them an…
- I consider it…as subverting the fundamental and characteristic principle of the Government…and as bidding defiance to the sense in which the Constitution is known to…
- As compacts, charters of government are superior in obligation to all others, because they give effect to all others. As truths, none can be more…
- The very definition of tyranny is when all powers are gathered under one place.
- I hope this will find you...enjoying the commencement of a new year with every prospect that can make it a happy one.
- In suits at common law, trial by jury in civil cases is as essential to secure the liberty of the people as any one of…
- The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, or to publish their sentiments; and the freedom of the press, as…
- That is not a just government, nor is property secure under it, where the property which a man has in his personal safety and personal…
- Who does not see that . . . the same authority which can force a citizen to contribute three pence only of his property for…
- In no part of the Constitution is more wisdom to be found than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace to…
- Toleration is not the opposite of intolerance, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding…
- 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…
- And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both…
- 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…
- By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and…
- The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed, or…
- If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a…
- The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or…
More One Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle