Elbridge Gerry Quotes

#1. A standing army is like a standing member. It's an excellent assurance of domestic tranquility, but a dangerous temptation to foreign adventure.

Elbridge Gerry

#2. God appeases our animal fears and the unbearable prospect that someday all our pleasures will cease.

Muriel Barbery

#3. By giving unusual people an easy way to find one another, the Internet has also enabled them to pool rare talents, resources, and voices, then push their case into public consciousness. The response, in many cases, is a kind of hysteria.

Virginia Postrel

#4. The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots.

Elbridge Gerry

#5. The novelist ... must live in paranoia and seek to be one with the world; he must be terrified of experience and hungry for it; he must think himself nothing and believe he is superior to all.

Norman Mailer

#6. Know the Power that is Peace.

Black Elk

#7. When I travel, I love speaking to women around the world about the things that inspire them, the fashions they like, what makes something good and what would make it even better.

Maria Sharapova

#8. So often my own emotions were hidden not only from other people but from myself. or perhaps it was the other way round: i was hiding from them.

Margot Livesey

#9. If sarcasm were gold, she would have just made her fortune.

Karen Hawkins

#10. What, sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty ... Whenever governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins.

Elbridge Gerry

#11. I don't know how anyone can work on people's mouths all day long. That disgusts me. I'd rather work on the other end than work on mouths.

Joelle Carter

#12. New Rule: All Fox News employees must now refer to President Bush as "my liege". If they are going to treat President Bush like he's an infallible king, they need to start addressing him as if he was an infallible king. And they can do this by addressing him as "my liege".

Bill Maher

#13. I am exceedingly distressed at the proceedings of the Convention-being ... almost sure, they will ... lay the foundation of a Civil War.

Elbridge Gerry

#14. No religious doctrine shall be established by law.

Elbridge Gerry

#15. I think the way the audience takes the Indian film-star is a little different from the way the audience takes the Western star there. We are considered like demi-gods here, and the reason is not because we are better or good, but because there is no other mode of entertainment in India.

Shah Rukh Khan

#16. It is necessary to build a system or a structure which will allow you to form your dream into reality

Sunday Adelaja

#17. Self defense is a primary law of nature, which no subsequent law of society can abolish; the immediate gift of the Creator, obliges everyone to resist the first approaches of tyranny.

Elbridge Gerry

#18. My mother used to say that girls should be seen and not heard. I say we should be seen and feared.

Kami Garcia