James Madison Quotes

In proportion as slavery prevails in a State, the Government, however democratic in name, must be aristocratic in fact.

James Madison

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• I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Many a sin has sullied me in body and in soul because I did not restrain my thoughts nor guard my lips: nevertheless it is to Thee, O God of majesty and love, that I turn in my extremity, for Thou art the fount of mercy; to Thee, as quickly as I may, I speed: for Thou alone canst heal me; I take refuge under Thy protection.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • God
  • Soul
  • Thoughts

• Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • World
  • Black

• A label's typical plan would be to put something out that's safer and get fans, and then push buttons, but my idea is to push buttons first, scare off the people who are gonna be scared off, and then the right people will like you for who you really are, and stay with you.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • People
  • Plan
  • Push

• It is still fashionable to believe that how you organize yourself religiously in this life may matter for eternity. Unless we can erode the prestige of that kind of thinking, we're not going to be able to undermine these divisions in our world.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Life
  • World
  • Believe

• One can not impede scientific progress.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Science
  • Progress

• Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Children
  • Want
  • Scared

• Well yes so far, I was recently in Germany and they had me do six book signings a day and that was too much so I had them cut it down to about three. It becomes taxing at times but its a lot of fun and you meet a lot of nice people.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • People
  • Book
  • Fun

• I love any excuse to come to New York - when it's not February.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Love
  • Come
  • Excuse

• I'm lucky to have a wife and a child that keep me grounded.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Wife
  • Child
  • Lucky

• In the first couple of years when you're transitioning you don't really fit into any gender, because you're changing over. You have to start getting electrolysis before you even start your therapy. But I think all the weird looks help to give you conviction in who you really are.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Help
  • Couple
  • Weird

• In the early 2000s, I was going through a lot. I didn't have my head screwed on right. Where I was at as a man, I was still growing up.

  

  Raekwon
  • Up
  • Man
  • Growing

• Peter Cook and Dudley Moore were friends and the last people I expected would predecease me. They were, in a sense, casualties of fame.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • People
  • Friends
  • Sense

• My parents don't have any showbusiness links. They are so far away from it.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Parents
  • Far
  • Far Away

• Words originating from the verb 'to die' were frequently used when I described my initial plans to determine the ribosome structure.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Words
  • Die
  • Plans

• I always liked red. It's a picker-upper.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Always
  • Red
  • Liked

• My family are observant Muslims, but I've come to the faith through an intellectual conviction, and that's something that they've taught me. It's never been forced upon me. They've given me a very strong identity as an Australian Muslim.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Family
  • Strong
  • Faith

• I like how the other guys are stepping up. If we keep this up, then Bell does not have to score 25 points a game for us to win.

  

  Pat Williams
  • Up
  • Game
  • Win

• While the final decision as to the use of my body remains with PETA, I make the following suggested directions:

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Decision

• I think when I start out writing, I always try to write the version of the movie that I want to go see. I don't mean it in a way that ignores the audience, but I really set out to make a movie that I want to see and that, hopefully, other people will want to go see it. So whatever's amusing to me, I guess, I throw it all in there.

  

  Brian Helgeland
  • People
  • Writing
  • Movie

• Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • God
  • Bible
  • Read

• The thing with physical preparation is I have tons of friends who train at a really high level and who can give me advice. But with mental training, I don't really know anybody who has a much better mind for climbing, I guess, so I don't really know where I would go. It's not really a limiting factor for me.

  

  Alex Honnold
  • Mind
  • Friends
  • High

• The story of a proud Roman soldier who is sold into slavery and must fight his way back to freedom, 'Gladiator' suggests what would happen if someone made a movie of the imminent extreme-football league and shot it as if it were a Chanel commercial.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • Movie
  • Freedom
  • Proud

• In proportion as slavery prevails in a State, the Government, however democratic in name, must be aristocratic in fact.

  

  James Madison
  • Slavery