Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.
From James Madison
The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.
And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
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 you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
8 perspectives
7 perspectives
6 perspectives
4 perspectives
1 perspectives