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
No man will subject himself to the ridicule of pretending that any natural connection subsists between the sun or the seasons, and… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The aim of every political Constitution, is or ought to be first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to… — James Madison Copy Share Image
That is not a just government, nor is property secure under it, where the property which a man has in his personal… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defense against real, pretended, or… — James Madison Copy Share Image
As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Among the features peculiar to the political system of the United States, is the perfect equality of rights which it secures to… — James Madison Copy Share Image
May it not be asked of every intelligent friend to the liberties of his country, whether the power exercised in such an… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Testimony of all ages forces us to admit that war is among the most dangerous enemies to liberty, and that the executive… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Our country, if it does justice to itself, will be the workshop of liberty to the civilized world. — James Madison Copy Share Image
The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty. — James Madison Copy Share Image
[The proposed establishment] will have a . . . tendency to banish our Citizens. . . . To superadd a fresh motive… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The civil rights of none, shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The members of the legislative department . . . are numerous. They are distributed and dwell among the people at large. Their… — 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
Complaints are everywhere heard from our most considerate and virtuous citizens, equally the friends of public and private faith, and of public… — James Madison Copy Share Image
We look back, already, with astonishment, at the daring outrages committed by despotism, on the reason and rights of man; we look… — James Madison Copy Share Image
A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The liberal appropriations made by the legislature of Kentucky for a general system of education cannot be too much applauded . .… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate wherever the Government assumes a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. ...under the republican forms… — James Madison Copy Share Image
People will continue to seek justice until it is found, or until liberty is lost in the pursuit. — James Madison Copy Share Image
The best service that can be rendered to a Country, next to that of giving it liberty, is in diffusing the mental… — 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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