The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The magnitude of this evil among us is so deeply felt, and so universally acknowledged, that no merit could be greater than… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government. — James Madison Copy Share Image
I acknowledge, in the ordinary course of government, that the exposition of the laws and Constitution devolves upon the judicial. But I… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The apportionment of taxes on the various descriptions of property is an act which seems to require the most exact impartiality; yet… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The eyes of the world being thus on our Country, it is put the more on its good behavior, and under the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Extend the sphere and you take in a greater variety of parties and interests; you make it less probable that a majority… — James Madison Copy Share Image
But cool and candid people will at once reflect, that the purest of human blessings must have a portion of alloy in… — James Madison Copy Share Image
No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause; because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not… — James Madison Copy Share Image
We are teaching the world the great truth that Governments do better without Kings & Nobles than with them. The merit will… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The people can never willfully betray their own interests: But they may possibly be betrayed by the representatives of the people; and… — James Madison Copy Share Image
An alliance or coalition between Government and religion cannot be too carefully guarded against......Every new and successful example therefore of a PERFECT… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The two great points of difference between a democracy and a republic are: first, the delegation of the government, in the latter,to… — 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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