All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
Quote by James Madison
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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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James Madison Quotes
- The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad.
- Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
- Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
- If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.
- All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
- The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
- A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
- The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.
- What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.
- A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
Best Quotes
- My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.
- I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.
- What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
- I don't think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.
- Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
- We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
- If you tell God no because He won't explain the reason He wants you to do something, you are actually hindering His blessing. But when you say yes to Him, all of heaven opens to pour out His goodness and reward your obedience. What matters more than material blessings are the things He is teaching us in our spirit.
- Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
- Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.
- Humility is truth.