Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The internal effects of a mutable policy are still more calamitous. It poisons the blessings of liberty itself. — James Madison Copy Share Image
People will continue to seek justice until it is found, or until liberty is lost in the pursuit. — James Madison Copy Share Image
If we advert to the nature of republican government, we shall find that the censorial power is in the people over the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their… — James Madison Copy Share Image
A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Experience has proved that the real danger to America and to liberty lies in the defect of energy and stability in the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Every man who loves peace, every man who loves his country, every man who loves liberty ought to have it ever before… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Happily for the states, they enjoy the utmost freedom of religion. This freedom arises from that multiplicity of sects which pervades America,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Happily for America, happily, we trust, for the whole human race, they pursued a new and more noble course. They accomplished a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by… — James Madison Copy Share Image
... the State Legislatures will jealously and closely watch the operations of this Government, and be able to resist with more effect… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The genius of Republican liberty, seems to demand on one side, not only that all power should be derived from the people;… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“The war has proved moreover that our free Government, like other free governments, though slow in its early movements, acquires in its… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The people of the U.S. owe their Independence & their liberty, to the wisdom of descrying in the minute tax of 3… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first… — James Madison Copy Share Image
That this liberty [of the press] is often carried to excess; that it has sometimes degenerated into licentiousness, is seen and lamented,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
If it be asked what is to restrain the House of Representatives from making legal discriminations in favor of themselves and a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
If justice, good faith, honor, gratitude and all the other qualities which enoble the character of a nation, and fulfill the ends… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The liberal appropriations made by the legislature of Kentucky for a general system of education cannot be too much applauded . .… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Whilst we assert for ourselves a freedom to embrace, to profess and observe the Religion which we believe to be of divine… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Because finally, 'the equal right of every citizen to the free exercise of his religion according to the dictates of conscience' is… — James Madison Copy Share Image
To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea. — James Madison Copy Share Image
The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad. — James Madison Copy Share Image
An armed and trained militia is the firmest bulwark of republics - that without standing armies their liberty can never be in… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ… — James Madison Copy Share Image
A people armed and free, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition and is a bulwark for the nation against foreign… — James Madison Copy Share Image
A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The security intended to the general liberty consists in the frequent election and in the rotation of the members of Congress. — James Madison Copy Share Image
A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and… — James Madison Copy Share Image
[Restraints on the press] in all ages, have debauched morals, depressed liberty, shackled religion, supported despotism, and deluged the scaffold with blood. — James Madison Copy Share Image
The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real… — James Madison Copy Share Image
No power over the freedom of religion [is] delegated to the United States by the Constitution. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Americans need not fear the federal government because they enjoy the advantage of being armed, which you possess over the people of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real… — James Madison Copy Share Image
In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by power. America has set the example . . . of charters of power… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It is a melancholy reflection that liberty should be equally exposed to danger whether the government have too much power or too… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives. A… — James Madison Copy Share
Rulers who wished to subvert the public liberty, may have found an established Clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just Government instituted to secure & perpetuate… — James Madison Copy Share
The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments… — James Madison Copy Share
How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations and establishments… — James Madison Copy Share
The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed,… — James Madison Copy Share
It is certain that every class is interested in [educational] establishments which give to the human mind its highest improvements, and to every Country… — James Madison Copy Share
Since it is impossible for the people spontaneously and universally, to move in concert towards their object; and it is therefore essential, that such… — James Madison Copy Share
The definition of the right of suffrage is very justly regarded as a fundamental article of republican government. — James Madison Copy Share
The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded. — James Madison Copy Share
They can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the great mass… — James Madison Copy Share
The effect of a representative democracy is to refine and enlarge the public views, by passing them through the medium of a chosen body… — James Madison Copy Share
“... But besides the danger of a direct mixture of Religion & civil Government , there is an evil which ought to be guarded… — James Madison Copy Share
Although all men are born free, slavery has been the general lot of the human race. Ignorant--they have been cheated; asleep--they have been surprised;… — James Madison Copy Share
“It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what is government… — James Madison Copy Share
The better proof of reverence for that holy name would be not to profane it by making it a topic of legislative discussion… — James Madison Copy Share
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