Logo
Quote by James Madison
If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffr

If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason. – James Madison

Other quotes by James Madison

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support? – James Madison

Category:
Learning
Author
James Madison
Read Quote

The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived. – James Madison

Category:
Government
Author
James Madison
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Truth
category

No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to Gods good pleasure but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that – as is the perfect truth – it was the gift of God. – Saint Patrick

Category:
Truth

Comedy is a way to make sense of chaos. Its a way of dealing with things that are overwhelming, that threaten you its a way to survive and get closer to the truth. – Laura Linney

Category:
Truth

Tell the truth and then run. – Proverb

Category:
Truth

For truth is always strange stranger than fiction. – Lord Byron

Category:
Truth

Random Quotes

Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted. – Richard Wagner

Category:
Money

Parents are not interested in justice; they are interested in quiet. – Bill Cosby

Category:
Parents

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say. – Virginia Woolf

Category:
Courage

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it wont come out while youre watching. – Tennessee Williams

Category:
Success