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 | Equality, Founders, Freedom, Government, Natural Law, Quotes, Thomas Jefferson
All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 4, 2013 | Equality, Founders, Government, Quotes, Thomas Jefferson
If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy. Courtesy of BrainyQuote
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 4, 2013 | Equality, Quotes
Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. Courtesy of BrainyQuote
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 4, 2013 | Equality, Quotes
It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive. Courtesy of...