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Quote DB :: Authors :: James Madison :: View Quote View Quote "I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on the objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents." - Copy to Clipboard   --  James Madison Listed in: Economics Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 5  Rate Quote 17 votes submitted Your Name: Friend's Email: Sponsored Links Top 5 quotes from James Madison "The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home." "If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." "You give me a credit to which I have no claim in calling me 'the writer of the Constitution of the United States.' This was not, like the fabled Goddess of Wisdom, the offspring of a single brain. It ought to be regarded as the work of many heads and many hands." "A popular Government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives." Top 5 quotes from Economics "I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on the objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents." "The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money." "Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their kids pay for it." "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own neccessities but of their advantages." "We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle."

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