Madison Quote by Richard Brookhiser Download Open image “Madison lived in his head and public speaking did not come naturally to him.” — Richard Brookhiser ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Madison Public speaking
“He wasn't much of a listener, not a great payer of attention to things outside his head.” — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“But one clear difference was that he had acquired almost no formal sort of social discipline—he could not even attempt to imitate decorum. He… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“...As with many American conversations, the words he spoke had not conveyed what he had intended by them. He could never decide if it… — Laila Halaby Copy Share Image
He talked to himself because there weren't many people as learned as he, and he liked to talk to learned people. — Frank Beddor Copy Share Image
“Classing Jefferson with George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, both of whom were also reluctant to speak at length in public, Adams said, “A public… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
He was a power politically for years, but he never got prominent enough t'have his speeches garbled — Kin Hubbard Copy Share Image
[John Adams] is impressed with [Tomas] Jefferson's learning, but noted his silence during the debates in the Congress: "I never heard him utter three… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
I shouldn't want you to be surprised, or to draw any particular inference from my making speeches, or not making speeches, out there. I… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
His struggle for a bare living left him no time to take advantage of the public evening school. In time he learned to read,… — Mary Antin Copy Share Image
His speech failed to rouse an enthusiastic cheer, but no one dared contradict him. — Kenneth Oppel Copy Share Image
Public opinion should not be confused with popular sentiment. Popular sentiment is what people say to one another around their dinner tables. Popular opinion… — Richard Brookhiser Copy Share Image
Only the stupefying ignorance of young women prevents them from comprehending the stupefying emptiness of the men who cluster round them. — Richard Brookhiser Copy Share Image
The young women who attract so much attention never change: They are all stupid. They have at best only the crudest notions of their… — Richard Brookhiser Copy Share Image
The Dutch practice euthanasia so briskly that they will kill themselves even before the Islamists get around to it. — Richard Brookhiser Copy Share Image
“The lightheaded and the fashionable are always willing to shed tears for distant underdogs.” — Richard Brookhiser Copy Share Image
Aaron Burr was like a new refrigerator. He was bright, cold and empty. — Richard Brookhiser Copy Share Image
Routine is supposed to be the great deadener of souls; how much worse is the half-completed task, the broken round, the unfulfilled routine? — Richard Brookhiser Copy Share Image
Libertarians are believers in small government who really mean it -- no excuses, no exceptions. [For Libertarians], the excesses of government are their best… — Richard Brookhiser Copy Share Image
[Washington had won] a war for independence and then gone home. [He embodied] the legend of the Roman who returned to his plow after… — Richard Brookhiser Copy Share Image
I wanted to play in New York when I was in my prime and I was young, fierce, lock-down [defender]. Madison Square Garden, that… — Metta World Peace Copy Share Image
They say that Madison Avenue will only pay high dollars in advertising if they get the 18-35 age range. — Sharon Gless Copy Share Image
[James] Madison pointed out in the discussion of the constitutional debates - the constitutional convention - that democracy would be a danger. He used… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
'Tempting the Best Man' centers around Madison Daniels, who's had a major crush on her brother's best friend since she was a girl. — Jennifer Armentrout Copy Share Image
“As you can see, it´s More with one o, not two - pet peeve of mine". "More as in give me more". Madison´s crush… — Claudia Gray Copy Share Image
I do not suspect that Jefferson or Madison ever envisioned Congress honoring the 2,560th anniversary of the birth of Confucius or supporting the designation… — Eric Cantor Copy Share Image
There are certainly numberless women of fashion who consider it perfectly natural to go miles down Fifth Avenue, or Madison Avenue, yet for whom… — Jules Romains Copy Share Image
If I- if I competed in Bruno Sammartino's era, I'd have been champion for 20 years, too. No, I'd have been champion for 30… — CM Punk Copy Share Image
I am a Libertarian. I want to be known as a Libertarian and a Constitutionalist in the tradition of the early James Madison -… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
In my 20s, my mom and I went and saw the bridges of Madison County, which are in Iowa, and I had seen that… — Lissie Copy Share Image
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