Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Madison

We maintain therefore that in matters of Religion, no man's right is abridged by the institution of Civil Society, and that Religion is wholly exempt from its cognizance.

James Madison

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

James Madison

No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment....

James Madison

If man is not fit to govern himself, how can he be fit to govern someone else?

James Madison

There never was an assembly of men, charged with a great and arduous trust, who were more pure in their motives, or more exclusively or anxiously devoted to the object committed to them.

James Madison

Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks-no form of government can render us secure. To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea, if there be sufficient virtue and intelligence in the community, it will be exercised in the selection of these men. So that we do not depend on their virtue, or put confidence in our rulers, but in the people who are to choose them.

James Madison

The people can never willfully betray their own interests: But they may possibly be betrayed by the representatives of the people; and the danger will be evidently greater where the whole legislative trust is lodged in the hands of one body of men, than where the concurrence of separate and dissimilar bodies is required in every public act.

James Madison

It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage...Before any man can be considered as a member of Civil Society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe...

James Madison

As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.

James Madison

That is not a just government, nor is property secure under it, where the property which a man has in his personal safety and personal liberty, is violated by arbitrary seizures of one class of citizens for the service of the rest.

James M. Cain

I had killed a man, for money and a woman. I didn't have the money and I didn't have the woman.

James M. Cain

Stealing a man's wife, that's nothing, but stealing his car, that's larceny.

James MacArthur

A woman doesn't just love a man. She loves who he is. And, who he is is dependent on what he needs.

James Levine

And, over the last thirty years we have seen men's participation in both housework and childcare has increased and women's have stayed at about the same.

James Lipton

There's only one man I've called a coward, and that's Brian Doyle-Murray.

James M. Barrie

I am aware that those hateful persons called Original Researchers now maintain that Raleigh was not the man; but to them I turn a deaf ear.

James M. Barrie

Men's second childhood begins when a woman gets a hold of him.

James M. Barrie

You [Scots] come of a race of men the very wind of whose name has swept to the ultimate seas.

James M. Barrie

I have always found that the man whose second thoughts are good is worth watching.

James M. Barrie

Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God's critters tempting decent men.

James M. Barrie

As soon as you can say what you think and not what some other person has thought for you, you are on the way to being a remarkable man.

James Larkin

The men whose manhood you have broken will loathe you, and will always be brooding and scheming to strike a fresh blow.

James Larkin

I am careful about my conduct because I know this cause requires clean men.

James Larkin

Russia is the only place where men and women can be free,

James Larkin

Man must be associated with his fellows.

James Lane Allen

I have yet to encounter that common myth of weak men, an insurmountable barrier.

James Lane Allen

Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him.

James Laver

Avisitor from Mars contemplating a man in a frock coat and top hat and a woman in a crinoline might well have supposed that they belonged to different species.

Joe Pantoliano

The greatest leading man, in my opinion, will always be Cary Grant.

Joe Paterno

Some things I thought were important for a young man to know.

Joe Paterno

All coaches are thinking men, or else they wouldn't survive.

Joe Rogan

People are scared man, they're scared of the void.

John Fund

Remember, the Islamist view of democracy is: one man, one vote, one election, and that's it.