Equal laws protecting equal rights…the best guarantee of loyalty and love of country. — James Madison Copy Share Image
No free country has ever been without Parties, which are a natural offspring of freedom. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Our country, if it does justice to itself, will be the workshop of liberty to the civilized world. — James Madison Copy Share Image
I flatter myself [we] have in this country extinguished forever the ambitious hope of making laws for the human mind. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy… — 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
Who are to be the objects of popular choice? Every citizen whose merit may recommend him to the esteem and confidence of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It is certain that every class is interested in [educational] establishments which give to the human mind its highest improvements, and to… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The best service that can be rendered to a Country, next to that of giving it liberty, is in diffusing the mental… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Should ardent spirits be everywhere banished from the list of drinks, it will be a revolution not the least remarkable in this… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The eyes of the world being thus on our Country, it is put the more on its good behavior, and under 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
The most that the Convention could do in such a situation, was to avoid the errors suggested by the past experience of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The two great points of difference between a democracy and a republic are: first, the delegation of the government, in the latter,to… — James Madison Copy Share Image
American citizens are instrumental in carrying on a traffic in enslaved Africans, equally in violation of the laws of humanity and in… — James Madison Copy Share Image
[T]he delegation of the government, in [a republic], to a small number of citizens elected by the rest . . . [is]… — James Madison Copy Share Image
In a free Government, the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. It consists in the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The important distinction so well understood in America between a constitution established by the people, and unalterable by the government; and a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
We are free today substantially, but the day will come when our Republic will be an impossibility. It will be an impossibility… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Among the features peculiar to the political system of the United States, is the perfect equality of rights which it secures to… — James Madison Copy Share Image
May it not be asked of every intelligent friend to the liberties of his country, whether the power exercised in such an… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The definition of the right of suffrage is very justly regarded as a fundamental article of republican government. — James Madison Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“... 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 Image