Degrees Quotes by James Madison

There is a degree of depravity in mankind which requires a certain degree of circumspection and distrust.

— James Madison

To consider the degree of concord which ultimately prevailed as less than a miracle.

— James Madison

A certain degree of preparation for war . . . affords also the best security for the continuance of peace.

— James Madison

Some degree of abuse is inseparable from the proper use of everything.

— James Madison

The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man; and we see them everywhere brought into different degrees…

— James Madison

It degrades from the equal rank of Citizens all those whose opinions in Religion do not bend to those of the Legislative…

— James Madison

It is a misfortune incident to republican government, though in a less degree than to other governments, that those who administer it,…

— James Madison

From the the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different degrees and kinds of property immediately…

— James Madison

It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage and such only as he believes to be…

— James Madison

No man can be a competent legislator who does not add to an upright intention and a sound judgment a certain degree…

— James Madison

The political truths declared in that solemn manner acquire by degrees the character of fundamental maxims of free Government, and as they…

— James Madison

[I]n the next place, to show that unless these departments be so far connected and blended as to give to each a…

— James Madison

In a free Government, the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. It consists in the…

— James Madison

Man, who preys both on the vegetable and animal species, is himself a prey to neither. He too possesses the reproductive principle…

— James Madison

But ambitious encroachments of the federal government, on the authority of the State governments, would not excite the opposition of a single…

— James Madison

Frequent elections are unquestionably the only policy by which this dependence and sympathy can be effectually secured. But what particular degree of…

— James Madison

The great objects which presented themselves [to the Constitutional Convention] ... formed a task more difficult than can be well conceived by…

— James Madison

It will be remembered, that a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles is solemnly enjoined by most of the state constitutions, and particularly…

— James Madison

Some degree of abuse is inseparable from the proper use of every thing; and in no instance is this more true than…

— James Madison

The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a…

— James Madison