Representative Quotes

267 quotes by 240 authors

The law limits anyone from serving as president of the United States for more than eight years. And in my opinion - well, eight years… — Michele Bachmann
I'm just the messenger here. I'm just another representative of my faith, so to speak. — Stephen Baldwin
Representative institutions are as much a part of the true Briton as his language and his literature. — Annie Besant
Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy. — Robert Bork
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion. — Edmund Burke
I'm the audience's representative on earth. — Michael Caine
There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy. — Fidel Castro
It is hard to make government representative when it is also remote. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The representative element in a work of art may or may not be harmful, but it is always irrelevant. For to appreciate a work of… — Clive Bell
The only distinction between freedom and slavery consists in this: In the former state a man is governed by the laws to which he has… — Alexander Hamilton
There is not one state truly alive if it is not as if a cauldron burns and boils in its representative body, and if there… — Sukarno
It is in a way a mystery that, instead of demanding that their governments give primary attention to their own needs and aspirations, most of… — J. William Fulbright
Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The figure of the enthusiast who has just discovered jogging or a new way to fix tofu can be said to stand or, more accurately,… — Lewis H. Lapham
When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they have… — Thomas Jefferson
The liberty the citizen enjoys is to be measured not by governmental machinery he lives under, whether representative or other, but by the paucity of… — Herbert Spencer
Beware of charisma . . . Representative Men; was Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1850 phrase for the great men in a democracy . . . Is… — Daniel J. Boorstin
My mother was a Northern woman, daughter of Hon. John Sergeant, a distinguished lawyer, and for many years representative in Congress from Philadelphia. — John Sergeant Wise
REPRESENTATIVE, n. In national politics, a member of the Lower House in this world, and without discernible hope of promotion in the next. — Ambrose Bierce
Far from being an aberration that is not representative of Christianity, the persecution of heretics follows logically from the connection of faith and salvation as… — Shadia Drury

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