"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."

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Source : Speech at Virginia Convention, 5 June 1788

James Madison

#Freedom Quotes #Believe Quotes #Power Quotes

“Always be nice to everyone in the firm on the way up. You never know who you may meet on the way down.”
“Dogs are actually very smart, it's just that they're rather clumsy, but it's this trait that makes humans attracted to them and why I love dogs so much.”
“When I was growing up, I wasn't taught how to feel or communicate feelings.”
“I think we all have the capacity of evil in us.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It touches on drug use. I got caught up in that for almost two years.”
“I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.”
“When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.”

Source : Wendell L. Willkie (1943). “Prefaces TO PEACE”
“How slow life is, how violent hope is.”

Source : Guillaume Apollinaire (2015). “Selected Poems: with parallel French text”, p.17, OUP Oxford

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