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 | Apr 1, 2015 | Government, Philosophers, Polybius, Quotes
“Monarchy first changes into its vicious allied form, tyranny; and next, the abolishment of both gives birth to aristocracy. Aristocracy by its very nature degenerates into oligarchy; and when the commons inflamed by anger take vengeance on this government for...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Apr 1, 2015 | Government, Philosophers, Polybius, Quotes, Subject
“democracy in its turn is abolished and changes into a rule of force and violence” as the people grow more “accustomed to feed at the expense of others and to depend for their livelihood on the property of others.” Polybius – The...
