Posted by
CKHustler on Thursday, May 22, 2008 8:29:52 PM
These quotes are of James Madison. Another founding father hero! Once again another founding father against most everything the libs stand for!
James Madison
A just security to property is not afforded by that government, under which unequal taxes oppress one species of property and reward another species.
James Madison, Essay on Property, March 29, 1792
Oh Boy, does this sound a bit like what goes on today with progressive taxes? Yet another quote of proof that shows what the founding fathers would think about our country today.
I own myself the friend to a very free system of commerce, and hold it as a truth, that commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive and impolitic — it is also a truth, that if industry and labour are left to take their own course, they will generally be directed to those objects which are the most productive, and this in a more certain and direct manner than the wisdom of the most enlightened legislature could point out.
James Madison, speech to the Congress, April 9, 1789
Hmm...such as say...Big oil? The CEO of Shell this past week bashed Senator Leahy on this exact issue. Check it out for yourself.
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_052108/content/01125107.guest.html Rush had the clip right on the radio so you can probably get a clip of it there.
This quote goes against everything liberals stand for! Liberals want to tax anything that makes a profit until they no longer make a profit. Business will soon all leave if we continue down this path!
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, subject to particular exceptions.
James Madison, letter to Edmund Pendleton, January 21, 1792
Bingo! Our government promotes the "general welfare" only they don't really. They keep the population undereducated by spouting historical lies in the classroom. They teach self-confidence instead of problem-solving. We spend 11 trillion on the war on poverty and it does nothing! Um..hello! I coulda told you that before you started! Enable people to do nothing and you get more people that will do nothing!
If individuals be not influenced by moral principles; it is in vain to look for public virtue; it is, therefore, the duty of legislators to enforce, both by precept and example, the utility, as well as the necessity of a strict adherence to the rules of distributive justice.
James Madison, in response to Washington's first Inaugural address, May 18, 1789
by example! we are sorely lacking on both sides of the isle here. The libs want all moral principles removed from society. Just check out the California judges who legislate from the bench against the people.
The house of representatives...can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as the great mass of society. This has always been deemed one of the strongest bonds by which human policy can connect the rulers and the people together. It creates between them that communion of interest, and sympathy of sentiments, of which few governments have furnished examples; but without which every government degenerates into tyranny.
James Madison, Federalist No. 57, February 19, 1788
Hmmm...like say the DC gun ban? You know all congressmen still get to have guns around there...no one else gets to, so why would they need one? These elitest scum really have to be taken out of power!
[D]emocracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; and have, in general, been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.
James Madison, Federalist No. 10, November 23, 1787
Ouch. This goes along with one from my first part with democracies lasting 200 years while going through bondage and whatnot. Once the libs start taking away our freedoms...its all downhill for them after that. Lets not go silently into the night!
[T]he government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose powers are more general. Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.
James Madison, speech in the House of Representatives, January 10, 1794
Charity isn't? oh wait, but isn't that the role of the liberals government? Social programs? Stealing from Peter to pay Paul is exactly what they do. Its legalized mafia!
Sorry it was a bit shorter. Im a bit short on time around now. I plan on putting up a good list of Reagan quotes. That will have a good deal more humor in them as well. On second thought. I will go through some quotes by all the presidents leading up to now. I have been reading some and it is amazing how against modern liberalism they are! And they didn't even know what it was yet!