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James Madison on Property Rights 3

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

James Madison on Redistribution

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

James Madison on Minority Rights 2

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

James Madison on Property Rights 2

by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 4, 2013 | Constitution, Founders, Freedom, Government, James Madison, Natural Law, President, Quotes

The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted. Courtesy of BrainyQuotes

James Madison on Education 2

by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 4, 2013 | Education, Founders, Freedom, James Madison, President, Quotes

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty. Courtesy of BrainyQuotes

James Madison on Property Rights

by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 4, 2013 | Constitution, Founders, Freedom, Government, James Madison, Natural Law, President, Quotes

As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights. Courtesy of BrainyQuotes
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