Freedom Quotes by James Madison

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

— James Madison

The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.

— James Madison

Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.

— James Madison

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

— James Madison

Every word decides a question between power and liberty.

— James Madison

Liberty is to faction what air is to fire...

— James Madison

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

— James Madison

The ultimate authority ... resides in the people alone.

— James Madison

Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued…

— James Madison

Freedom arises from a multiplicity of sects, which pervades America, and is the best and only security for religious liberty in America.

— James Madison

“There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power…

— James Madison

Thus the right of nullification meant by Mr. Jefferson is the natural right, which all admit to be a remedy against insupportable…

— James Madison

Our country, if it does justice to itself, will be the workshop of liberty to the civilized world.

— James Madison

The internal effects of a mutable policy are still more calamitous. It poisons the blessings of liberty itself.

— James Madison

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

— James Madison

If we advert to the nature of republican government, we shall find that the censorial power is in the people over the…

— James Madison

Every man who loves peace, every man who loves his country, every man who loves liberty ought to have it ever before…

— James Madison

As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.…

— James Madison

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the…

— James Madison

We have staked the whole future of our new nation, not upon the power of government; far from it. We have staked…

— James Madison

The genius of Republican liberty, seems to demand on one side, not only that all power should be derived from the people;…

— James Madison

“The war has proved moreover that our free Government, like other free governments, though slow in its early movements, acquires in its…

— James Madison

Happily for the states, they enjoy the utmost freedom of religion. This freedom arises from that multiplicity of sects which pervades America,…

— James Madison

Happily for America, happily, we trust, for the whole human race, they pursued a new and more noble course. They accomplished a…

— James Madison

Whilst we assert for ourselves a freedom to embrace, to profess and observe the Religion which we believe to be of divine…

— James Madison

Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ…

— James Madison

If it be asked what is to restrain the House of Representatives from making legal discriminations in favor of themselves and a…

— James Madison

It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first…

— James Madison

That this liberty [of the press] is often carried to excess; that it has sometimes degenerated into licentiousness, is seen and lamented,…

— James Madison

If justice, good faith, honor, gratitude and all the other qualities which enoble the character of a nation, and fulfill the ends…

— James Madison

The liberal appropriations made by the legislature of Kentucky for a general system of education cannot be too much applauded . .…

— James Madison

Because finally, 'the equal right of every citizen to the free exercise of his religion according to the dictates of conscience' is…

— James Madison

“Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ…

— James Madison

Every word of [the Constitution] decides a question between power and liberty.

— James Madison

“Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the abuses of power.”

— James Madison

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their…

— James Madison

A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a…

— James Madison

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in…

— James Madison

“The advancement of science and the diffusion of information [is] the best aliment to true liberty.”

— James Madison

No free country has ever been without Parties, which are a natural offspring of freedom.

— James Madison