Famous Quotes

"It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood."

James Madison on Men

More quotes about Men

• "It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."

  Frederick Douglass on Men

• "I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman."

  Anais Nin on Men

• "Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance."

  Oscar Wilde on Men

• "Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?"

  Confucius on Men

• "Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Men

More quotes by James Madison

• "A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people."

• "To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression."

• "A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country."

• "Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages."

• "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."