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Place Quotes by James Madison
- The aim of every political Constitution, is or ought to be first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most…
- In the first place, it is to be remembered, that the general government is not to be charged with the whole power of making and…
- The public affairs of the union are spread throughout a very extensive region, and are extremely diversified by the local affairs connected with them, and…
- The best reason to be assigned, in this case, for not having made the Constitution more free from a charge of uncertainty in its meaning,…
- A republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect and promises the cure for…
- [I]n the next place, to show that unless these departments be so far connected and blended as to give to each a constitutional control over…
- 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…
- The very definition of tyranny is when all powers are gathered under one place.
- In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in…
- If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.…
- The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature, that such…
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- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the… — Karen Armstrong
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong
- Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place. — Lance Armstrong
- It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced… — Neil Armstrong
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- I've been to Nepal, but I'd like to go to Tibet. It must be a wonderful place to go. I don't think… — David Attenborough
- All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters… — Margaret Atwood
- That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves,… — Kevyn Aucoin
- Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim… — Wystan Hugh Auden