by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 4, 2013 | Constitution, 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. James Madison: letter to...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 4, 2013 | Education, Founders, Freedom, James Madison, President, Quotes
What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support? Courtesy of BrainyQuotes
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 4, 2013 | Constitution, Founders, Freedom, Government, James Madison, President, Quotes
The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government. Courtesy of BrainyQuotes
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 4, 2013 | Equality, Founders, Government, James Madison, President, Quotes
I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property. Courtesy of BrainyQuotes
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 4, 2013 | Constitution, Equality, Founders, Freedom, Government, James Madison, President, Quotes
By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt. Courtesy of BrainyQuotes
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 4, 2013 | Constitution, Founders, Freedom, Government, James Madison, Quotes
There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong. Courtesy of BrainyQuotes
