Danh ngôn của James Madison
What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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Các câu danh ngôn khác của cùng tác giả: James Madison
- If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
- A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
- The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
- The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
- I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
Các câu danh ngôn khác của cùng chuyên mục: Nature
- The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the angels of our nature.
- Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man's heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.
- Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.
- Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.
- To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.