by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 20, 2013 | Founders, Government, James Madison, President, Quotes
“”Hence it is that democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general have been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 17, 2013 | Constitution, Economics, Founders, Freedom, Government, James Madison, President, Quotes
“The enviable condition of the people of the United States is often too much ascribed to the physical advantages of their soil & climate …. But a just estimate of the happiness of our country will never overlook what belongs to the fertile activity of...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 17, 2013 | Constitution, Founders, Freedom, Government, James Madison, Natural Law, President, Quotes, Uncategorized
“Government is instituted to protect property of every sort …. This being the end of government, that is NOT a just government,… nor is property secure under it, where the property which a man has … is violated by arbitrary seizures of one...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 17, 2013 | Constitution, Founders, Government, James Madison, President, Quotes
“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many… may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” James Madison
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 17, 2013 | Constitution, Founders, Government, James Madison, Natural Law, President, Quotes
“The powers delegated by the … Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.” James Madison from the Federalist Papers
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 17, 2013 | Education, Founders, James Madison, President, Quotes
“Although all men are born free, slavery has been the general lot of the human race. Ignorant – they have been cheated; asleep – they have been surprised; divided – the yoke has been forced upon them. But what is the lesson? …the people...
