James Madison Quotes

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. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

James Madison

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• During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result.

  

  Walther Bothe
  • Time
  • Good
  • Done

• Between their rise in the thirteenth century and their sudden fall in the seventeenth, when the line abruptly ended, the Medicis produced three popes, two queens, and many Florentine rulers, and they supported the work of Galileo, Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Botticelli - a veritable parade of geniuses.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Work
  • Fall
  • Three

• I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column.

  

  W. P. Kinsella
  • Write
  • Interest
  • Watch

• When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Kind
  • Ever
  • Belt

• Theo van Doesburg wanted to teach in the Bauhaus in 1922. I refused, however, to appoint him since I considered him to be too aggressive and too rigidly theoretical: he would have wrought havoc in the Bauhaus through his fanatic attitude, which ran counter to my own broader approach.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Attitude
  • Teach
  • Him

• I spend a lot of time in L.A., and when it rains there you get the entire rainfall for the year in two days, raindrops the size of mangoes. And in Barcelona, the Mediterranean storms come up from the sea, thunder and lightning; it's like the end of the world.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• It's not unusual for a would-be entrepreneur to get turned down half a dozen times before finding a willing investor - yet in most companies, it takes only one 'nyet' to kill a project stone dead.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Down
  • Entrepreneur
  • Finding

• I think it's much harder to have a long dialogue scene than an action scene. An action scene is long, but it's not really hard. It's kind of boring, really. It looks good at the end, but to shoot it, it's not the most exciting thing.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Good
  • Long
  • Action

• The reality about being economically dependent on someone else usually doesn't work out for women in the end. It's about being an adult and being responsible for your life. Most women have to work, so let's just get on with it.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Life
  • Work
  • Women

• I like to do my own make-up.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Up
  • Like
  • Own

• Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.

  

  Cameron Bright
  • Sweet
  • Breathe
  • Underwater

• And now I have a big house, nice clothes and I travel in first class and I love it, so maybe it's time to enjoy being a star.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Time
  • Love
  • House

• Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Good
  • Live
  • Job

• The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Music
  • Job
  • Attention

• The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Fear
  • Hell
  • Too Much

• Improving oversight of hedge funds and other private funds is vital to their sustainability and to our economy's stability.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Economy
  • Sustainability

• Hindi film and southern film industries are doing well when it comes to technical know how. By and large, they are pretty similar and are close knit industries.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Pretty
  • Know
  • Film

• I mean, if you're proud of what you've done when you've served in the military, well then we call that bragging. And if you are unhappy about what happened, we call that complaining. And so what are you going to do?

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Done
  • Proud
  • Military

• I am very proud of being Jewish. I went to a Jewish school all my life.

  

  Anthony Pratt
  • Life
  • School
  • Proud

• Indignant Man resumes the shaft he gave, Disarms the tyrant, and unbinds the slave, Displays the unclad skeleton of kings, Spectres of power, and serpents without stings.

  

  Joel Barlow
  • Power

• The idea of ensuring that federal research dollars should be reasonably spread around is an arguably useful goal. But it should be done per person, not per state.

  

  Bill Foster
  • Done

• The only time I get depressed is when I am not being productive, it’s when I am not accomplishing or doing or contributing in any way. Nothing makes me less happy than relaxation and sitting around with nothing to do.

  

  Casey Neistat
  • Productive
  • Depressed
  • I Am Not

• 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. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

  

  James Madison
  • People
  • Power
  • Knowledge