#si

If something is being done on a secret basis in national security, that's a great reason for elected officials to not talk about it. And that's a great way to shirk accountability for it with the public. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

#accountability #basis #being #being done #done

If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

#british #burden #colonists #exist #financial

The folks celebrating Jim Bunning are seeing him as an anti-government, anti-spending activist. But to embrace Jim Bunning is to embrace a strange record, if you really are a libertarian, if you really are a deficit hawk, if you really care about spending and responsibility. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

#activist #care #celebrating #deficit #embrace

Honest businessmen should be protected from the unscrupulous consumer. ↗

— Lester Maddox

#consumer #honest #protected #should #unscrupulous

I was under the impression I had signed a three-year contract. I want to be back. I expect to be back. I will be back. ↗

— Greg Maddux

#contract #expect #had #i #impression

I am accordingly ready; I have pressed as many Cabinet papers into trunks as to fill one carriage; our private property must be sacrificed, as it is impossible to procure wagons for its transportation. ↗

— Dolley Madison

#am #cabinet #carriage #fill #i

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. ↗

— James Madison

#enemy #fighting #foreign #guise #land

So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument. ↗

— Miroslav Vitous

#basis #bass #bass player #could #fact

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. ↗

— James Madison

#encroachments #freedom #gradual #i #i believe

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions. ↗

— James Madison

#excess #faculties #his #man #opinions