Constitutional rights Quote by James Madison Download Open image “What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?” — James Madison ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Constitutional rights Federalist Federalist papers Government Human Human nature Humans Natural rights Nature Nature of man Politics Reflection Self-government Separation of powers
What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature, that… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Government is the exercise of all the great qualities of the human mind. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Government is nothing more than the combined force of society, or the united power of the multitude, for the peace, order, safety, good and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Government is, or ought to be instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation, or community; of all the various… — George Mason Copy Share Image
Governments are composed of human beings, and all of the frailties that humans possess are absorbed into these governments and become active within these… — John McAfee Copy Share Image
Government . . . is a reflection of us. It is up to us to earn a better reflection. — Andrew Horning Copy Share Image
What other form of government, indeed, can so well deserve our esteem and love? — John Adams Copy Share Image
My concept of government's role in people's lives is that it is limited but legitimate, and essential when people have nowhere else to turn. — Olympia Snowe Copy Share Image
Personally, I think government is a tool, like a hammer. You can use a hammer to build or you can use a hammer to… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Government is, at every level, a means to gather in the labor and wealth of the people, and then instruct the people about new… — Jeff Baxter 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… — James Madison Copy Share Image
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… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I think that, as Americans, we should never forget that when we tamper with freedom of speech, it is a very sensitive issue that… — Charles B. Rangel Copy Share Image
I went to Ferguson and walked with the demonstrators and saw this heavily armed police force, tactical units pointing sniper rifles at my constituents… — William Lacy Clay, Jr Copy Share Image
President Bush has asserted the right to wiretap and eavesdrop on any American without a warrant in the name of fighting terrorism. He has… — Helen Thomas Copy Share Image
Civil libertarians have raised concerns that some of the Patriot Act's provisions infringe on Constitutional rights. Those concerns are not supported by the facts. — Roger Wicker Copy Share Image
To take a single step beyond the boundaries specially drawn around the powers of Congress is to take possession of a boundless field of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
You hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, 'That man is… — Frank Hague Copy Share Image
It didn't really change my opinion about [Edward] Snowden all that much, but I definitely feel like as a culture, it gave us information… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
“Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may… — James MacGregor Burns Copy Share Image
Censorship does not interfere with the constitutional rights of every American to sit alone in a dark room in the nude and cuss. — Pat Paulsen Copy Share Image
When we use the term pig, for example, we are referring to the people who systematically violate the peoples' constitutional rights - whether they… — Bobby Seale Copy Share Image
People who want to come to this country don't have constitutional rights. Once they get here, they do. But coming here is not a… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
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