Maxim Quotes

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty. John Adams
Government Freedom Man Trust Liberty Men Free Power Living Ought Danger Free Government Only Endanger Maxim Public
Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate. Bertrand Russell
Capitalism Liberty Tyranny Apt Must Embodied Restrained Sacred Over Principles Exercise Advocate Very Maxim Unfortunate Which Fortunate Appeal
Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. John Quincy Adams
People Power Liberties Nip Arbitrary Arbitrary Power Only Bud Maxim Shoots Any Which Ever Preserve
Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
People Liberty Remember Free Lost Once Free People Recovered Never Maxim May Acquire
The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right. Alexander Hamilton
God People Judge Changing Has-Been Determine Voice Fact Seldom Generally True Said However Been Maxim Quoted Turbulent Believed Right
May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law. Immanuel Kant
Life You Law Become Live Were Maxim May Your Actions Universal
I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God. Susan B. Anthony
God Obedience Women Old Tyranny Earnestly Recognition All Women Shall Practical Continue Revolutionary Maxim Urge Resistance
Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them. Abraham Lincoln
Better Sometimes Thought Holding Only Shall Wrong Spoken Soon Renounce Ready Opinions Sound Discover Subjects Times Than Maxim Any May Regard Which Them Right Treated
There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong. James Madison
Needs Political Liable More Wrong Majority Opinion Than Maxim Current In My Opinion Which Interest Standard Therefore Right Right And Wrong
Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you. Wayne Dyer
Life You People Treat Way Get Maxim Teach Treated
Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority. Henri Frederic Amiel
Life Art Moral Authority Be True Eloquence Secret Virtue Moral Highest True Authority Maxim The Secret Of Us Let Us
To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute. James Buchanan
Wisdom Will Our Has-Been Alliance Attempt No-One Since Days Policy Been Maxim Avoid Washington Ever Dispute
Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself. John Searle
You Yourself Simple Try Style Say Follow Clearly Concerned Understand Questions Maxim Where Exposition
It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves. Robert Louis Stevenson
Gardening Garden Eyes Care Will Take Take Care Cultivate Maxim Golden Nose Themselves
Nothing is so useless as a general maxim. Thomas Babington Macaulay
Nothing General Maxim Useless
Scoring a goal in a World Cup was my dream as a little girl. I didn't really dream of being in 'Maxim' when I was 5. Alex Morgan
World Girl Dream Goal Scoring Cup Maxim Being Little Little Girl Really World Cup
For the years I spent working on it, 'Constellation' was the only novel I knew how to write, so maybe I still abided by the maxim? Regardless, I prefer the maxim: Write what you want to know, rather than what you already know. Anthony Marra
You Spent Rather Only Write Knew Know How Still Years Than Maxim Maybe Want Regardless Prefer Working Novel
It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Arthur Conan Doyle
Truth You Impossible Old Whatever Mine Must Remains Excluded However Improbable Maxim
When AIDS hit, lots of people banded together to take care of each other and do what the government wasn't doing. When you grow up Jewish, as I have, you learn that everybody hates you, no one's going to help you, and you have to take care of yourself. That's a great maxim to the gay community, and we took it to heart; we took care of our own. Bruce Vilanch
Government Great Gay You Together Heart Yourself People Care Own Community Other Everybody AIDS Gay Community Took Our Hates Take Take Care Learn Doing Lots Up Hit Maxim Going Help Each Grow Grow Up Jewish
You know, I'd love to do a Maxim shoot. But I'm not going to do it, because that's just stupid to do. Christy Romano
Love You Stupid Know Because Shoot Maxim Going Just
It is a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave. David Hume
Man Political Every Must Knave Supposed Maxim Just Every Man
The hollowing out of the heartland was good for Walmart's bottom line: its slogan might have been an amoral maxim attributed to Lenin - 'The worse, the better.' George Packer
Good Better Worse Out Slogan Bottom Bottom Line Attributed Line Been Maxim Walmart Lenin Might Amoral
They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man is as good as another;' a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory. James Fenimore Cooper
Good Nature Man Political Feeling Neither One-Man Morals True Another Revealed Nor Effecting Personal Maxim Ends Flattering Theory Who Popular Boldly
No person can be more deeply sensible than myself of the danger of entangling alliances with any foreign nation. That we should avoid such alliances has become a maxim of our policy consecrated by the most venerated names which adorn our history and sanctioned by the unanimous voice of the American people. James K. Polk
Myself History People Become Nation Our Danger Unanimous More Voice Adorn Alliance Names Most Policy Foreign Than Person American Maxim Any Sensible Which Sanctioned American People Should Avoid Deeply Consecrated
There's an unspoken rule in affluent circles that suggests you can always define an individual's status by measuring his or her proximity to the most influential person in the room. And as the maxim goes, closer is always better. Jamie Johnson
You Better Circles Rule Define Status Individual Unspoken Most Always His Proximity Person Affluent Maxim Closer Goes Influential Room Measuring Her
It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends. Jean Racine
Old All Things Friends Maxim Common Themselves Among Things
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