Bases Quote by James Madison Download Open image “Religion [is] the basis and foundation of Government” — James Madison ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bases Bible Foundation God Government Politics Religion Religious
Government seems to me to be a part of religion itself - a thing sacred in its institutions and ends. — William Penn Copy Share Image
Government is a true religion: it has its dogmas, its mysteries, its priests. To submit it to the individual discussion is to destroy it;… — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
“. . . in no instance has a system in regard to religion been ever established, but for the purpose, as well as with… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
“Our form of government has no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith, and I don’t care what it is.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion... . — Samuel Chase Copy Share Image
Religion may in most of its forms be defined as the belief that the gods are on the side of the government. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverence for truth and justice, for equality and liberality, and… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The foundation of our religion is a basis of fact - the fact of the birth, ministry, miracles, death, resurrection by the Evangelists as… — Simon Greenleaf Copy Share Image
It is contended by many that ours is a Christian government, founded upon the Bible, and that all who look upon the book as… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Religion and virtue are the only foundations, not of republicanism and of all free government, but of social felicity under all government and in… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives. A… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Rulers who wished to subvert the public liberty, may have found an established Clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just Government instituted to secure & perpetuate… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments… — James Madison Copy Share Image
How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations and establishments of every hostile nation? The means of security can only be regulated by the means and the danger of attack. They will, in fact, be ever determined by these rules, and by no others . .… — James Madison Copy Share
The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It is certain that every class is interested in [educational] establishments which give to the human mind its highest improvements, and to every Country… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Since it is impossible for the people spontaneously and universally, to move in concert towards their object; and it is therefore essential, that such… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The definition of the right of suffrage is very justly regarded as a fundamental article of republican government. — James Madison Copy Share Image
The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded. — James Madison Copy Share Image
They can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the great mass… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The effect of a representative democracy is to refine and enlarge the public views, by passing them through the medium of a chosen body… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“... But besides the danger of a direct mixture of Religion & civil Government , there is an evil which ought to be guarded agst in the indefinite accumulation of property from the capacity of holding it in perpetuity by ecclesiastical corporations. ...Is the appointment of Chaplains to the two Houses of Congress consistent with the Constitution, and with the… — James Madison Copy Share
Self-respect and a clear conscience are powerful components of integrity and are the basis for enriching your relationships with others. — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding war, why we need to cut the military budget by 50%, why we need to bring back our troops scattered overseas, the police force of the world, in over a hundred countries, something like eight hundred… — Jill Stein Copy Share
I don't want to go into space because of war. I think we would if it was triggered. If China said they want to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The United States cannot and should not discriminate on the basis of religion. The free exercise of religion is at the very heart of… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
According to the best research, less than 3% of Americans have written goals, and less than 1% review and rewrite their goals on a daily basis. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
When the Lord Jesus Christ became my surety . . . He went to Calvary's cross, and all my guilt was charged against Him.… — Henry Allen Ironside Copy Share Image
I'm in a business where there's complete anarchy. You can't control it - you can only react to it. The control that people traditionally… — Martin Sorrell Copy Share Image
This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
There are dangers in consensus: it could be an attempt to satisfy people holding no particular views about anything. ... No great party can… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
There's no way to have a peace agreement unless the mediator or negotiator looks at both sides from an equal basis. — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Coercion is the basis of every law in the universe,--human or divine. A law is not law without coercion behind it. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
Each Act of Parliament intended to address harassment and discrimination has faced objections on the basis of 'you'll never be able to prove...' and… — Tim Field Copy Share Image