25 result(s) for Rooster Quotes: Calling For Madison Quotes.
"The purpose of the Constitution is to restrict the majority's ability to harm a minority."
"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."
"If men were angels, no government would be necessary."
"The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty."
"A popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both."
"The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined."
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations."
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"The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money."
"It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood."
"The essence of Government is power; and power, delegated to those who manage it, must be exercised..."
"We are teaching the world the great truth that Governments do better without Kings & Nobles than with them. The experiment commences here."
"Equal laws protecting equal rights…the best guarantee of loyalty and attachment to the country."
"Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government."
"The means of defense against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home."
"A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people."
"Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprize, every expanded prospect."
"Philosophy is common sense with big words."
"Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done."
"It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties."
"The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world."
"The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy."
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"As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights ."
"I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution."
"In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.”"
"What is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?"
