"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." --James Madison
The thing is what does it mean? James Madison couldn't have meant the Americans against the British. I know she is saying it as a statement against the Iraq War and anti-Bush. But I still don't get it. Why would Madison says this? Anybody heard this one before?
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It may have come from one of the Federalist Papers. If Madison did write it, the concern was not to allow liberty to be erroded.
All the founders were horribly worried about giving to much power to the national government, which is why they checked and balanced everything...including the biggest check against potential tyrany.
I don't get it either... Sounds like it was taken out of context and used to say something that he didn't mean to say, just like the rest of the bumper-sticker phrases that the Left uses.
I'm going to start using James Madison quotes to close all of my E-mails too.
Like this one:
"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."
What it means is that in time of war, stronger security measures are needed and the government takes that as an excuse to repress the people. The ultimate goal of terrorists is to make a government so repressive that its people will rise up and overthrow it. I've never seen that happen, but that's never stopped the weak-minded from believing it.
Liberals (moral and physical cowards)aren't taking this quote out of context but are using it as an excuse to just lay down like little bunnies and be slaughtered by the enemy. Of course, if you ask them what freedoms they had six years ago that they don't have now, they are flummoxed. It is very odd reasoning. They want higher taxes, they want big government, they want everything under the sun banned or regulated, but when it is done for national security reasons, they react like hysterical chimpanzees.
Here are some other James Madison quotes. I wonder if your liberal friend would embrace them equally or whether she's a cafeteria American -- taking what she wants and leaving the rest.
Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.
Among the features peculiar to the political system of the United States, is the perfect equality of rights which it secures to every religious sect…Equal laws, protecting equal rights, are found, as they ought to be presumed, the best guarantee of loyalty and love of country; as well as best calculated to cherish that mutual respect and good will among citizens of every religious denomination which are necessary to social harmony, and most favorable to the advancement of truth.
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