It is not certain that with this aid alone [possession of arms], they would not be able to shake off their yokes.… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.... Notwithstanding the military establishments… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The American people owe it to themselves, and to the cause of free Government, to prove by their establishments for the advancement… — James Madison Copy Share Image
In a free Government, the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. It consists in the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
That is not a just government where arbitrary restrictions, exemptions, and monopolies deny to part of its citizens that free use of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted. — James Madison Copy Share Image
The invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Because finally, 'the equal right of every citizen to the free exercise of his religion according to the dictates of conscience' is… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The important distinction so well understood in America between a constitution established by the people, and unalterable by the government; and a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
If there be a principle that ought not to be questioned within the United States, it is that every man has a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
In the compound republic of America, the power surrendered by the people is first divided between two distinct governments, and then the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? — James Madison Copy Share Image
The most that the Convention could do in such a situation, was to avoid the errors suggested by the past experience of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
In all the co-temporary discussions and comments, which the Constitution underwent, it was constantly justified and recommended on the ground, that the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Besides the danger of a direct mixture of religion and civil government, there is an evil which ought to be guarded against… — James Madison Copy Share Image
We are teaching the world the great truth that Governments do better without Kings & Nobles than with them. — James Madison Copy Share Image
I regret, as much as any member, the unavoidable weight and duration of the burdens to be imposed; having never been a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an… — James Madison Copy Share Image
We have seen that the tendency of republican governments is to an aggrandizement of the legislative at the expense of the other… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression. In our Governments the real power lies in… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. — James Madison Copy Share Image
The governments of Europe are afraid to trust the people with arms. If they did, the people would certainly shake off the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
But ambitious encroachments of the federal government, on the authority of the State governments, would not excite the opposition of a single… — 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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