[Property] embraces everything to which a man may attach a value and have a right. — James Madison Copy Share Image
But the mere circumstance of complexion cannot deprive them of the character of men. — James Madison Copy Share Image
The truth was that all men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree. — James Madison Copy Share Image
No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I go by the great republican principle, that the people will have the virtue and intelligence to select men of virtue and… — James Madison Copy Share Image
No man can be a competent legislator who does not add to an upright intention and a sound judgment a certain degree… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
We maintain therefore that in matters of Religion, no man's right is abridged by the institution of Civil Society, and that Religion… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It is possible that these may all be insufficient to control the caprice and wickedness of man. But are they not all… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The Convention thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men. — James Madison Copy Share Image
It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage...Before any man can be considered as a member… — James Madison Copy Share Image
There never was an assembly of men, charged with a great and arduous trust, who were more pure in their motives, or… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Whatever may be the judgement pronounced on the competency of the architects of the Constitution, or whatever may be the destiny of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage and such only as he believes to be… — James Madison Copy Share Image
That is not a just government, nor is property secure under it, where the property which a man has in his personal… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human… — James Madison Copy Share Image
By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The people can never willfully betray their own interests: But they may possibly be betrayed by the representatives of the people; and… — James Madison Copy Share Image
If there be a principle that ought not to be questioned within the United States, it is that every man has a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Place three individuals in a situation wherein the interest of each depends on the voice of the others, and give to two… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Although all men are born free, slavery has been the general lot of the human race. Ignorant--they have been cheated; asleep--they have… — James Madison Copy Share Image
If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I have sometimes thought there could be no stronger testimony in favor of Religion or against temporal Enjoyments even the most rational… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The real wonder is that so many difficulties should have been surmounted [in the federal convention], and surmounted with a unanimity almost… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
In the latter sense, a man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them. He has a property… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Religion, or the duty we owe to our Creator, and manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks-no form of government… — James Madison Copy Share Image
If man is not fit to govern himself, how can he be fit to govern someone else? — James Madison Copy Share Image
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
[Religious liberty was] in its nature an inalienable right ... because the opinions of men, depending only upon the evidence contemplated by… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man; and we see them everywhere brought into different degrees… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The smaller the number and the more permanent and conspicuous the station of men in power, the stronger must be the interest… — 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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