This is quotation number 131 from The Good, The Bad, & The Hope We Have: A Treasury of Useful Quotations. It’s available for preorder from Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FSYVFVGN Originally posted 2025-11-11 09:52:28.
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The Definition of Tyranny
This is quotation number 178 from The Good, The Bad, & The Hope We Have: A Treasury of Useful Quotations. It’s available for preorder from Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FSYVFVGN Originally posted 2025-11-11 05:27:23.
The Purpose of Government
This is quotation number 41 from The Good, The Bad, & The Hope We Have: A Treasury of Useful Quotations. It’s available for preorder from Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FSYVFVGN Originally posted 2025-11-11 05:09:36.
The Wisdom of James Madison
James Madison was the fourth President of the United States. He was the Father of the Constitution and the principal author of the Bill of Rights. He said: “In the former sense, a man’s land, or merchandise, or money is called his property. In the latter sense, a man has a property in his opinions…
The Definition of Tyranny
“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elected, may justly be pronounced as the very definition of tyranny.” – James Madison Originally posted 2021-10-30 08:05:45.
The Author of the Constitution Said:
“I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.” Originally posted 2021-10-30 00:53:24.
The Only Guardian of True Liberty
“The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.” -James Madison Originally posted 2021-08-27 16:57:07.
Governments Are The Oppressors
James Madison said, “Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace.” Originally posted 2021-07-29 23:21:44.
The Three Branches of Our Federal Government
James Madison said, “The very definition of tyranny is when all powers are gathered under one place.” And that’s why the United States Government is separated into three separate and equal branches—the Legislative Branch, the Executive Branch, and the Judicial Branch. The Legislative Branch makes the laws. The Executive Branch enforces the laws. And the Judicial…