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
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
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 | Founders, Freedom, Government, Natural Law, Quotes, Thomas Jefferson
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law’ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the...
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...
