Federalist 51 Quotes

#1. James Madison made clear in Federalist 51 that that this elaborate structure - today often derided as " gridlock " - was created to protect individual freedom against oppression by the majority or by powerful interest groups who exploit government power for their own purposes.

Anonymous

#2. Few, if any, forces in human affairs are as powerful as shared vision.

Peter Senge

#3. Doubt is always accompanied by a pervasive cynicism that unconsciously puts a negative spin on whatever it touches.

Adyashanti

#4. There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard. The fearful are the failing.

Sarah Josepha Hale

#5. 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' was the work of a wayward imagination brought to the end of its tether by political disgust and personal confusion.

John Le Carre

#6. If we only knew that we could have anything we wanted we would set more goals.

Earl Nightingale

#7. Vices shouldn't be safe. They're what remind us we're alive and mortal.

Richard Kadrey

#8. On the cover of this publication a bikini-clad young woman disported herself with a medicine ball, both articles looking as though they had been inflated with a bicycle pump.

John Mortimer

#9. Do not be discouraged by the ways in which you fall short. Every shortcoming is to me an opportunity for your growth.

Julia Cameron

#10. You want to start with the objective of everything should feel exactly the same.

Keith Rabois