Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. — James Madison Copy Share Image
A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Disarm the people- that is the best and most effective way to enslave them. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate… — James Madison Copy Share Image
With respect to the words "general welfare," I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them.… — 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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