by Mike Van Schoiack | Apr 7, 2015 | Founders, James Madison, President, Quotes, Religion
“The civil rights of none, shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established, nor shall the full and equal rights of conscience be in any manner, or on any pretext infringed.” James Madison,...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Apr 7, 2015 | Founders, James Madison, President, Quotes, Religion, Subject
“It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage and such only as he believes to be acceptable to him. This duty is precedent, both in order of time and in degree of obligation, to the claims of Civil Society.” James Madison, Memorial and...
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 | Mar 25, 2015 | Founders, Freedom, Government, John Adams, President, Quotes
“Liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood.” John Adams, 1765
by Mike Van Schoiack | Mar 25, 2015 | Constitution, Debt, Economics, Founders, Government, President, Quotes, Thomas Jefferson
“I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution. I would be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction of the administration of our government to the genuine principles of its Constitution; I mean an additional article, taking from the...
