Agriculture Quote by James Madison

The Founding Fathers knew a government can't control the economy without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets out to do that…

— Ronald Reagan

The Founding Fathers envisioned a federal government that trusts its people with their money and freedom, outlining this limited, non-intrusive federal government in...the Constitution,…

— Milton Friedman

America's founders were clear that the Constitution established a federal government of few and defined powers. It cannot regulate any activity it chooses, but…

— Orrin Hatch

“Our forefathers bequeathed to us far more than a republic. They willed to us an enduring Constitution that incorporates more thought and brainpower than…

— James D. Best

I, sir, have always conceived - I believe those who proposed the constitution conceived,and it is still more fully known, and more material to…

— James Madison

The American Constitution was designed to make it hard to have too much government.

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

The whole frame of the Federal Constitution proves that the government which it creates was intended to be one of limited and specified powers.

— James K. Polk

But the Constitution was made not only for southern and northern states, but for states neither northern nor southern, namely, the western states, their…

— William H. Seward

“within rigidly circumscribed guidelines. All powers not specifically granted to the federal government are reserved to the states and the people. The Founding Fathers…

— Mark Meckler

Some of them, in accepting the proposed plan of government, coupled their acceptance with a recommendation of various additions to the Constitution, which they…

— Caleb Cushing

Congress would give the people what they wanted if the people knew what they wanted, and if Congress could give it to them.

— Evan Esar

The Founding Fathers knew a government can't control the economy without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets out to do that,…

— Ronald Reagan