by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 1, 2013 | Constitution, Founders, government, Government, James Madison, President, Quotes, Topics
“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,...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Aug 4, 2013 | Founders, George Washington, Government, President, Quotes, taxes
“No taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant.” –George Washington Courtesy of The Patriot Post (PatriotPost.US)
by Mike Van Schoiack | Aug 1, 2013 | Archive, Constitution, Founders, Government, James Madison, President, Quotes
“In the first place, it is to be remembered, that the general government is not to be charged with the whole power of making and administering laws: its jurisdiction is limited to certain enumerated objects, which concern all the members of the republic, but...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Jul 2, 2013 | Constitution, Freedom, Government, Natural Law, President, Quotes, Religion, Thomas Jefferson
“The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves in all cases to which they think themselves competent, or they may act by representatives, freely and equally chosen; that it is...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Jul 2, 2013 | Freedom, Government, James Madison, Natural Law, President, Quotes
“We have heard of the impious doctrine in the Old World, that the people were made for kings, not kings for the people. Is the same doctrine to be revived in the New, in another shape…? –James Madison (1788) Courtesy of The Patriot Post...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Jun 26, 2013 | Freedom, Government, New, Quotes
In 1916, a minister and outspoken advocate for Liberty, William J. H. Boetcker, published a pamphlet entitled “The Ten Cannots”: You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot...
