Found Quotes by James Madison

People will continue to seek justice until it is found, or until liberty is lost in the pursuit.

— James Madison

Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives…

— James Madison

I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate wherever the Government assumes a…

— James Madison

Rulers who wished to subvert the public liberty, may have found an established Clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just Government instituted to secure…

— James Madison

I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a…

— James Madison

On the distinctive principles of the Government ... of the U. States, the best guides are to be found in ... The…

— James Madison

In no part of the Constitution is more wisdom to be found than in the clause which confides the question of war…

— James Madison

The smaller the society, the fewer probably will be the distinct parties and interests composing it; the fewer the distinct parties and…

— James Madison

Torrents of blood have been spilt in the old world, by vain attempts of the secular arm, to extinguish Religious discord, by…

— James Madison

Whilst the last members were signing it Doctr. Franklin looking towards the Presidents chair, at the back of which a rising sun…

— James Madison

Nor is any evidence to be found, either in History or Human Nature, that nations are to be bribed out of a…

— James Madison

The free system of government we have established is so congenial with reason, with common sense, and with a universal feeling, that…

— James Madison

As to the permanent interest of individuals in the aggregated interests of the community, and in the proverbial maxim, that honesty is…

— James Madison

No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause; because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not…

— James Madison

Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security…

— James Madison

A pure democracy can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction. A common passion or interest will be felt by a…

— James Madison

The experience of the United States is a happy disproof of the error so long rooted in the unenlightened minds of well…

— James Madison

To what expedient then shall we finally resort, for maintaining in practice the necessary partition of power among the several departments, as…

— James Madison

No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause . . . . With equal, nay with greater reason,…

— James Madison

A pure Democracy, by which I mean a Society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the Government…

— James Madison

[A]ll power is originally vested in, and consequently derived from, the people. That government is instituted and ought to be exercised for…

— James Madison

Among the features peculiar to the political system of the United States, is the perfect equality of rights which it secures to…

— James Madison

Reason, on the contrary, assures us, that as in so great a number, a fit representative would be most likely to be…

— 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