#ted

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

I was in drama, wanted to be an actor. ↗

— Joan Jett

#drama #i #wanted

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

Honest businessmen should be protected from the unscrupulous consumer. ↗

— Lester Maddox

#consumer #honest #protected #should #unscrupulous

I continued studying by myself in the field of jazz with my own technique of improvisation, walking bass lines, rhythms, all kinds of stuff, which I created for myself. ↗

— Miroslav Vitous

#continued #created #field #i #improvisation

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. ↗

— James Madison

#constitution #distorted #end #form #government

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

America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts. ↗

— James Madison

#agriculture #america #arts #encouraged #had

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree. ↗

— James Madison

#certain degree #degree #distrusted #having #men

A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States. ↗

— James Madison

#happiness #liberty #our #permanent #political