Quotes About Limited

James Madison, always at the vortex of the fierce disputes over what measures these enumerated powers implied as necessary and proper, concluded—after serving for a quarter century as a congressman, secretary of state, and president—that the bedrock constitutional principle was simply to ensure that America does not "convert a limited into an unlimited Govt.

But that small government of limited and enumerated powers hasn't operated for nearly a century.

It is of course possible to produce apparent 'parallels' to almost anything. There is after all only a limited range of things that one can say in any 'religion', and some statements, taken cold and out of context, will look a bit like other statements whose own setting would actually indicate significant differences.

in a county where romantic partners were as scarce as yaks.

It is time we passed a balanced budget amendment and return this government to limited spending.

Absolute money (gold) makes limited-states and localized-wars (Pre-1913); Substitute money (fiat) makes Absolute States & Wars (Post-1913)

God is the ultimate source of all power. All human power is therefore derived, limited, unstable and transient.

We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty and individual liberty requires limited government.

Reasoning as a limited cognitive function, detached from the personal center, never could create courage. One cannot remove anxiety by arguing it away.

Prepositions are vital, of course. What would we do without in, of, by, for, on, and so forth? But as useful as those compact little words are, they must be limited and controlled or they'll fill the sentence with chaff, disrupt its flow, and force its rhythms into an annoying singsong.

For example, if she joined the book club — there was always a book club — and hung out with them, her choice of guys would be limited to the dark and moody Chuck Palahniuk/Kurt Vonnegut/Life-Sucks-and-Then-You-Die brooders.