by Mike Van Schoiack | Apr 7, 2015 | Founders, James Madison, President, Quotes, Religion, Subject
“That Religion or the duty we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, being under the direction of reason and conviction only, not of violence or compulsion, all men are equally entitled to the full and free exercise of it according to the dictates...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Apr 7, 2015 | Founders, James Madison, President, Quotes, Religion, Subject
“Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprize, every expanded prospect.” James Madison, letter to William Bradford, April 1, 1774
by Mike Van Schoiack | Jan 13, 2015 | Debt, Founders, James Madison, Quotes, Subject
“I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse, and in a Republican Government a greater curse than any other.” – James Madison, Courtesy of TheForgottenAmerican
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 31, 2013 | Constitution, Founders, Government, James Madison, President, Quotes
“I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.” James Madison, Annals of Congress , 3rd Congress, 1st Session, Page 170...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 24, 2013 | Constitution, Government, James Madison, President, Quotes
“The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government, are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace,...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 21, 2013 | Constitution, Economics, Founders, Government, James Madison, President, Quotes
“If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the general welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one subject to particular exceptions. It is to be remarked that...
