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There is not a more important and fundamental principle in legislation, than that the ways and means ought always to face the public engagements; that… — James Madison
How prone all human institutions have been to decay; how subject the best-formed and most wisely organized governments have been to lose their check and… — James Monroe
There is one view of the subject which ought to have its influence on those who espouse doctrines which strike at the authoritative origin and… — James Madison
They are not rules prescribed by the sovereign to the subject, but agreements between sovereign and sovereign. — Alexander Hamilton
No man will subject himself to the ridicule of pretending that any natural connection subsists between the sun or the seasons, and the period within… — James Madison
Every British Subject born on the continent of America, or in any other of the British dominions, is by the law of God and nature,… — James Otis
Conquered states that have been accustomed to liberty and the government of their own laws can be held by the conqueror in three different ways.… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Grasp the subject, the words will follow. — Cato the Elder
The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to… — Ernest Hemingway
Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach… — George Eliot
If they are ignorant, they are despised, if learned, mocked. In love they are reduced to the status of courtesans. As wives they are treated… — George Sand
If men were equally at risk from this condition - if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering from end-stage cirrhosis,… — Barbara Ehrenreich
A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the study of so vast a subject. A time will… — Seneca the Younger
I have appealed to our own experience for the truth of what I advance on this subject [that the legislative power is the predominant power].… — James Madison
It may not be improper, however, to remark two consequences, evidently flowing from an extension of the federal power to every subject falling within the… — James Madison
Without justice being freely, fully, and impartially administered, neither our persons, nor our rights, nor our property, can be protected. And if these, or either… — Joseph Story
The [President's] Nomination, of Course, brings the Subject fully under the Consideration of the Senate; who have then a Right to decide upon its Propriety… — George Mason
I have never made it a consideration whether the subject was popular or unpopular, but whether it was right or wrong; for that which is… — Thomas Paine
Distinguish open-minded people from closed-minded people. Open-minded people seek to learn by asking questions; they realize that what they know is little in relation to… — Ray Dalio
Since my first discussions of ecological problems with Professor John Day around 1950 and since reading Konrad Lorenz's "King Solomon's Ring," I have become increasingly… — Allan McLeod Cormack
In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That's a thought I'll never endure! Never. — Henrik Ibsen
It is an understatement to say that the time has arrived for a serious and open international dialogue regarding the possibility of future interplanetary relations.… — Steven M. Greer
Over the past eighteen years I have acted as a scientific consultant to the U.S. Air Force on the subject of unidentified flying objects -… — J. Allen Hynek
After a lifetime in this subject, I have concluded that the extraterrestrial hypothesis is one reasonable tentative approach to putting the best-documented and most puzzling… — Unknown Author
RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and the luckless. — Ambrose Bierce

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