Welfare Quotes by James Madison

8 Welfare quotes by James Madison

If you’re curious about how an early American statesman thought about social support, this brief set of eight Madison lines offers a clear, grounded glimpse into his perspective on welfare.

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It is too early for politicians to presume on our forgetting that the public good, the real welfare of the great body…

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If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare... they may appoint teachers in every state... The powers of Congress would…

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If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is…

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I consider it…as subverting the fundamental and characteristic principle of the Government…and as bidding defiance to the sense in which the Constitution…

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It may not be improper, however, to remark two consequences, evidently flowing from an extension of the federal power to every subject…

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To refer the power in question to the clause "to provide for the common defense and general welfare" would be contrary to…

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Money cannot be applied to the *general welfare*, otherwise than by an application of it to some *particular* measure conducive to the…

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With respect to the words "general welfare," I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them.…

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The definition of the right of suffrage is very justly regarded as a fundamental article of republican government.

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The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded.

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They can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the great mass…

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Although all men are born free, slavery has been the general lot of the human race. Ignorant--they have been cheated; asleep--they have been surprised;…

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