When men exercise their reason coolly and freely, on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions, on some… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Every answer he [President John Adams] gives to his addressers unmasks more and more his principles and views. His language to the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
So strong is this propensity of mankind to fall into mutual animosities, that where no substantial occasion presents itself, the most frivolous… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It may not be improper, however, to remark two consequences, evidently flowing from an extension of the federal power to every subject… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It was by the sober sense of our citizens that we were safely and steadily conducted from monarchy to republicanism, and it… — James Madison Copy Share Image
[T]he most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold and those… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Inference is founded upon obvious reasons. Regard to reputation has a less active influence, when the infamy of a bad action is… — 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
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