Charity
Monday, October 31st, 2011“Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.” James Madison
Archive for the 'Quotations' Category
Reagan on “The masses”
Monday, October 17th, 2011“I, for one, resent it when a representative of the people refers to you and me, the free men and women of this country, as ‘the masses.’ This is a term we haven’t applied to ourselves in America. But beyond that, ‘the full power of centralized government’ — this was the very thing the Founding [...]
Dependence
Monday, October 17th, 2011“Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.” Thomas Jefferson
Occupy Wall Street
Monday, October 3rd, 2011“A Marxist system will be the best thing for all of us in America,” – Occupy Wall Street Protestor
Character of our Countrymen
Monday, September 19th, 2011“The steady character of our countrymen is a rock to which we may safely moor; and notwithstanding the efforts of the papers to disseminate early discontents, I expect that a just, dispassionate and steady conduct, will at length rally to a proper system the great body of our country. Unequivocal in principle, reasonable in manner, [...]
The Nature of the Encroachment
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011“The nature of the encroachment upon American constitution is such, as to grow every day more and more encroaching. Like a cancer; it eats faster and faster every hour. The revenue creates pensioners, and the pensioners urge for more revenue. The people grow less steady, spirited and virtuous, the seekers more numerous and more corrupt, [...]
Divine and moral government
Thursday, August 25th, 2011“Human government is more or less perfect as it approaches nearer or diverges farther from the imitation of this perfect plan of divine and moral government.” John Adams, 1770
The Irresistible Fate of Despotism
Thursday, August 25th, 2011“How prone all human institutions have been to decay; how subject the best-formed and most wisely organized governments have been to lose their check and totally dissolve; how difficult it has been for mankind, in all ages and countries, to preserve their dearest rights and best privileges, impelled as it were by an irresistible fate [...]
The spirit of resistance
Thursday, August 25th, 2011“The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.” Thomas [...]
Least Imperfect Government
Thursday, August 25th, 2011“It has been said that all Government is an evil. It would be more proper to say that the necessity of any Government is a misfortune. This necessity however exists; and the problem to be solved is, not what form of Government is perfect, but which of the forms is least imperfect.” James Madison, 1833
