James Madonna see Madison quotes

" If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. " # Tyranny # America # Enemies

" All men having power ought to be mistrusted. " # Moderation

" If men were angels, no government would be necessary. " # Government

" What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. " # Government # Freedom # Power

" Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power. " # Liberty # Power # Freedom

" 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. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. " # Uncategorised # Knowledge # Love

" The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested in war, & most prone to it. It has accordingly with studied care, vested the question of war in the Legislature. But the Doctrines lately advanced strike at the root of all these provisions, and will deposit the peace of the Country in that Department which the Constitution distrusts as most ready without cause to renounce it. For if the opinion of the President not the facts & proofs themselves are to sway the judgment of Congress, in declaring war, and if the President in the recess of Congress create a foreign mission, appoint the minister, & negociate a War Treaty, without the possibility of a check even from the Senate, untill the measures present alternatives overruling the freedom of its judgment; if again a Treaty when made obliges the Legislature to declare war contrary to its judgment, and in pursuance of the same doctrine, a law declaring war, imposes a like moral obligation, to grant the requisite supplies until it be formally repealed with the consent of the President & Senate, it is evident that the people are cheated out of the best ingredients in their Government, the safeguards of peace which is the greatest of their blessings. " # Uncategorised # Politicians and Politics # Love

" Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant. " # Crisis # Tyranny # Politics

" The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. " # Uncategorised # Government # Power

" As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights. " # Property