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First Principles: To Be Respected Be Respectable
“No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of order and stability.” – James Madison, Federalist No. 62, 1788
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First Principles: A Government Should Be Constituted To Control Its Citizens But Also Itself
“In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.” – … Continue reading
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First Principles: Peace Is Better Than War; War Is Better Than Tribute
“It is a principle incorporated into the settled policy of America, that as peace is better than war, war is better than tribute.” – James Madison, 1816
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First Principles: Tyranny and Oppression Will Come To America In the Name of Fighting Some Foreign Enemy
“If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.” -James Madison, fourth US president (16 Mar 1751-1836) Power corrupts, right? There is no greater time that those in power have … Continue reading
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First Principles: The Aim of Constitutions Is To Obtain Leaders Who Pursue the Common Good of Society
“The aim of every political constitution is, or ought to be, first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most virtue to pursue, the common good of the society.” – James Madison (1788) … Continue reading
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First Principles: Laws Should Be Consistent and Easily Understood
“It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws … undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is today, can guess … Continue reading
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First Principles: Encroachments On Liberty Often Have Small Beginnings
“The people of the U.S. owe their Independence & their liberty, to the wisdom of descrying in the minute tax of 3 pence on tea, the magnitude of the evil comprised in the precedent. Let them exert the same wisdom, … Continue reading
First Principles: When War Becomes Necessary, Immediately Set Out the Terms of Peace
“To render the justice of the war on our part the more conspicuous, the reluctance to commence it was followed by the earliest and strongest manifestations of a disposition to arrest its progress. The sword was scarcely out of the … Continue reading
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First Principles: Love of Country Requires Valuing Its Defense
“Every man who loves peace, every man who loves his country, every man who loves liberty ought to have it ever before his eyes that he may cherish in his heart a due attachment to the Union of America and … Continue reading
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First Principles: Private Morality Must Precede Public
“If individuals be not influenced by moral principles; it is in vain to look for public virtue; it is, therefore, the duty of legislators to enforce, both by precept and example, the utility, as well as the necessity of a … Continue reading
