by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 16, 2013 | Constitution, Founders, Freedom, Government, James Madison, Quotes
“Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.” –James Madison, essay in the National Gazette, 1792 Courtesy of the Patriot Post...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 7, 2013 | Constitution, Founders, James Madison, President, Quotes
“Whatever may be the judgment pronounced on the competency of the architects of the Constitution, or whatever may be the destiny of the edifice prepared by them, I feel it a duty to express my profound and solemn conviction… that there never was an...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 7, 2013 | Constitution, Founders, Government, James Madison, President, Quotes, Uncategorized
“The happy union of these states is a wonder, their Constitution is a miracle; their example the hope of liberty throughout the world. Woe to the ambition that would meditate the destruction of either!” “Outline” of the relationship between...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 7, 2013 | Constitution, Founders, Government, James Madison, President, Quotes, Uncategorized
“Is it not the glory of the people of America that, while they have paid a decent regard to the opinions of former times and other nations, they have not suffered a blind veneration for antiquity, for custom, or for names to overrule the suggestions of their own...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 7, 2013 | Constitution, Founders, Government, James Madison, President, Quotes
“The great objects which presented themselves [to the Constitutional Convention] … formed a task more difficult than can be well conceived by those who were not concerned in the execution of it. Adding to these considerations the natural diversity of human...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 5, 2013 | Constitution, Equality, Founders, Government, James Madison, Quotes
“Equal laws protecting equal rights; the best guarantee of loyalty and love of country.” James Madison: letter to Jacob de la Motta — 1820
