#heir

The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived. ↗

— James Madison

#charter #constitutional #derived #fountain #government

My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support and their reading of my works is what brought me the Nobel prize. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#countrymen #forget #hand #me #nobel

We're seeing a much larger ministry here for the general community. Not just Catholics, but others are calling us too. They're not looking for lawyers or suing their grandfathers, but counseling and healing. ↗

— Roger Mahony

#catholics #community #counseling #general #grandfathers

I once knew a house rather like The Land of Smiles - an old house occupied by a varied collection of young people, mainly students. However none of these people were true models for the characters in the book, though their way of life may have been. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#book #characters #collection #house #however

It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#history #make #men #sentiments #their

Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics. ↗

— Maimonides

#branches #consequently #first #human #lastly

How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree. ↗

— Maimonides

#cannot #degree #distance #each #every

It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge; and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#events #exclusive #formidable #impediment #knowledge

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts. ↗

— Og Mandino

#acts #anything #apostles #deal #good

To the rest of us the supreme vindication of the scholar's view lies in their invincible allegiance to the Jewish heritage - a steadfastness that has been matched only by that of their rescuers. ↗

— Henrietta Szold

#been #heritage #invincible #jewish #lies