Famous quotes containing the words speech and/or acts:
“No speech can stain what is noble by nature.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)
“In our governments the real power lies in the majority of the community, and the invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from the acts of government contrary to the sense of the constituents, but from the acts in which government is the mere instrument of the majority.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)