Tuesday, March 02, 2010

We The People . . .

“A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.”
- James Madison

"Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government."
- James Madison

"A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever."
- John Adams

"When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic."
- Benjamin Franklin

"If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one...."
- James Madison

"They are not to do anything they please to provide for the general welfare...It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be for the good of the United States; and, as they would be the sole judges of the good or evil, it would be also a power to do whatever evil they please."
- Thomas Jefferson

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