Exalted Quote by Fisher Ames Download Open image “Time never fails to bring every exalted reputation to a strict scrutiny.” — Fisher Ames ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Exalted Failing Reputation Scrutiny Strict Time
It Takes A Long Time To build Up A Good Reputation Which Can Be easily Destroyed By Misconduct. — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out. — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Reputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Accountability and democratic choice, I deeply believe, are guaranteed by rigorous scrutiny only. — Jemima Khan Copy Share Image
A government by the passions of the multitude, or, no less correctly, according to the vices, and ambitions of their leaders is a democracy. — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
I am commonly opposed to those who modestly assume the rank of champions of liberty, and make a very patriotic noise about the people.… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
The people as a body cannot deliberate. Nevertheless, they will feel an irresistible impulse to act, and their resolutions will be dictated to them… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
Liberty is not to be enjoyed, indeed it cannot exist, without the habits of just subordination; it consists, not so much in removing all… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
Our liberty depends on our education, our laws, and habits . . . it is founded on morals and religion, whose authority reigns in… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
Democracy, in its best state, is but the politics of Bedlam; while kept chained, its thoughts are frantic, but when it breaks loose, it… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
Why then, if these new books for children must be retained, as they will be, should not the Bible regain the place it once… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
No man can be a sound lawyer in this land who is not well read in the ethics of Moses and the virtues of… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
[Why] should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book? Its morals are pure, its examples captivating and noble.… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
I have heard it remarked that men are not to be reasoned out of an opinion they have not reasoned themselves into. — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law. — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
A large portion of our citizens, who will not believe, even on the evidence of facts, that any public evils exist, or are impending.… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
To seek yourself in this world is to be lost; and to be humble is to be exalted. — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God? — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
I will prove that the world is wrong, by showing what God is...God himself was once as we are now and is an exalted… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
Exalted Manna, gladness of the best, Heaven in ordinary, man well drest, — George Herbert Copy Share Image
I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
The fate of war is to be exalted in the morning, and low enough at night! There is but one step from triumph to… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
WRATH, n. Anger of a superior quality and degree, appropriate to exalted characters and momentous occasions; as, "the wrath of God," "the day of… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Sexual pleasure, wisely used and not abused, may prove the stimulus and liberator of our finest and most exalted activities. — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
When those deserving of Paradise would enter Paradise, the Blessed and the Exalted would ask: Do you wish Me to give you anything more?… — Muhammad Copy Share Image