James Madison Quotes

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

James Madison

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: president
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 16, 1751 - June 28, 1836

Topics

LightBestPeopleMindFreeLiberty

My younger sister Debby had died of cancer, which started me writing - the sense of life being short. Cancer focuses your mind.

Meg Rosoff

LifeMindMeSisterWritingShort

I get to do what I love and communicate whatever I want.

Sia

LoveWantWhateverGetCommunicate

When you are what we call a 'minority writer,' a writer of color, a writer of any kind of difference, there is some kind of presumption of autobiography in everything you produce. And I find that really maddening, and I resist that.

Rumaan Alam

ColorYouFindKindEverythingCall

The bottom line with a lot of bands that funk is being applied to is that they don't really listen to funk and aren't versed in funk. Like, you know, Gordon Lightfoot.

Mike D

YouKnowListenLineBottomFunk

If you catch me saying 'I am a serious actor', I beg you to slap me.

Johnny Depp

I AmMeSayingYouSeriousActor

Dream no small dream; it lacks magic. Dream large. Then make the dream real.

Donald Wills Douglas

SmallMagicDreamRealMakeLarge

I've always tended to write comedy, but I'd hate to just write some kind of sitcom or a lighthearted series of jokes and slapstick. I wanted to talk about some deeper things within the comedy.

David Thewlis

HateComedyKindTalkWriteJokes

In fact, the Harvard study data indicates that 70 percent of African American children attend schools that are predominately African American, about the same level as in 1968 when Dr. King died.

Bobby Scott

ChildrenKingAmericanDataStudy

I understand the seriousness of concussions.

Peyton Manning

UnderstandSeriousness

I think in the end the big issue is that the private sector still needs more help. And the answer is not more big government. I know in my state our reforms allowed us to protect firefighters, police officers, and teachers.

Scott Walker

PoliceGovernmentThinkEndHelp

I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves of books about Tolkien and Middle-earth, and I was like, 'Holy cow, what else am I missing out on?'

Sean Astin

CowThreeNeverOutMissingRings

I didn't get interested in music. It was a gift from God.

Nina Simone

MusicGodGiftGetInterested

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