Quote of the Day
“Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant.”
-James Madison
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Tyranny and Oppression
Quote of the Day
“If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.”
-James Madison
Limited Government
Quote of the Day
“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 which are not to be attained by the separate provisions of any.”
-James Madison
Signals of general alarm
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“But ambitious encroachments of the federal government, on the authority of the State governments, would not excite the opposition of a single State, or of a few States only. They would be signals of general alarm… But what degree of madness could ever drive the federal government to such an extremity.”
-James Madison
Do not separate text from historical background
“Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you’ll have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.”
-James Madison
Every man who loves peace
“Every man who loves peace, every man who loves his country, every man who loves liberty ought to have it ever before his eyes that he may cherish in his heart a due attachment to the Union of America and be able to set a due value on the means of preserving it”
-James Madison
Tyranny
The very definition of tyranny is when all powers are gathered under one place”
-James Madison
The Constitution preserves
“The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, where the Government are afraid to trust their people with arms.”
-James Madison
The accumulation of all powers
Quote of the Day
“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.”
-James Madison
