104 ordspråk av James Madison

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James Madison föddes den March 16th 1751 och dog den 28 June 1836 - (1809-17), and one of the founding fathers of his country.
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 "I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents."

 "I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents."

 "I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents."

 "In no instance have . . . the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people."

 (Only) a well-instructed people can be a permanently free people.

 [Some people might say,] Aha! They forgot about the Constitution's general welfare clause! ... With respect to the two words 'general welfare,' I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators.

 A good government implies two things: fidelity to the object of government, which is the happiness of the people; secondly, a knowledge of the means by which that object can be best attained

 A lawyer's primer: If you don't have the law, you argue the facts; if you don't have the facts, you argue the law; if you have neither the facts nor the law, then you argue the Constitution

 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.

 A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.

 A standing army is one of the greatest mischief that can possibly happen

 A watchful eye must be kept on ourselves, lest while we are building ideal monuments of renown and bliss here, we neglect to have our names enrolled in the annals of Heaven

 A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.

 A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people

 A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people


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