The Constitution of the U.S. forbids everything like an establishment of a national religion. — James Madison Copy Share Image
The very definition of tyranny is when all powers are gathered under one place. — James Madison Copy Share Image
[I]t is the reason alone, of the public, that ought to control and regulate the government. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Disarm the people- that is the best and most effective way to enslave them. — 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… — James Madison Copy Share Image
If man is not fit to govern himself, how can he be fit to govern someone else? — James Madison Copy Share Image
Thus the right of nullification meant by Mr. Jefferson is the natural right, which all admit to be a remedy against insupportable… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The regulation of commerce, it is true, is a new power; but that seems to be an addition which few oppose and… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Those who are to conduct a war cannot in the nature of things, be proper or safe judges, whether a war ought… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is the right… — 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
Congress shall never disarm any citizen unless such as are or have been in actual rebellion. — James Madison Copy Share Image
The proposed Constitution is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution; but a composition of both. — James Madison Copy Share Image
The most productive system of finance will always be the least burdensome. — James Madison Copy Share Image
To consider the degree of concord which ultimately prevailed as less than a miracle. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The definition of the right of suffrage is very justly regarded as a fundamental article of republican government. — James Madison Copy Share
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
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
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
“... 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
Although all men are born free, slavery has been the general lot of the human race. Ignorant--they have been cheated; asleep--they have been surprised;… — James Madison Copy Share
“It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what is government… — James Madison Copy Share
The better proof of reverence for that holy name would be not to profane it by making it a topic of legislative discussion… — James Madison Copy Share
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