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Proportion Quotes by James Madison
- No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause . . . . With equal, nay with greater reason, bodies of men,…
- Respect for character is always diminished in proportion to the number among whom the blame or praise is to be divided.
- The members of the legislative department . . . are numerous. They are distributed and dwell among the people at large. Their connections of blood,…
- Attempts to enforce by legal sanctions, acts obnoxious to so great a proportion of Citizens, tend to enervate the laws in general, and to slacken…
- In proportion to the value of this revolution; in proportion to the importance of instruments, every word of which decides a question between power and…
- The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.…
More Proportion Quotes
- If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of… — Mark Twain
- The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of considerable importance,… — Charles Babbage
- It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion to the… — Alexander Hamilton
- There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. — Francis Bacon
- We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them. — Christian Nestell Bovee
- The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written. — Elizabeth Bowen
- The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do… — Madeleine Albright
- An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains. — Henri Frederic Amiel