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
- Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
- All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
- 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.
- Knowledge will forever govern ignorance and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
- A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
- Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
- If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
- To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
- Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
- 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.
Best Quotes
- I don't know how I got to this point but it must be as a result of everything that has come before so if I were to change something, I might not be at this point now.
- The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
- The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties blind faith the one unpardonable sin.
- If God wanted us to bend over he'd put diamonds on the floor.
- Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
- I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.
- We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it's time to turn the page.
- All great peoples are conservative.
- Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.
- Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.