Although all men are born free, slavery has been the general lot of the human race. Ignorant--they have been cheated; asleep--they have… — James Madison Copy Share Image
When men exercise their reason coolly and freely, on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions, on some… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Every answer he [President John Adams] gives to his addressers unmasks more and more his principles and views. His language to the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Conscience is the most sacred of all property; other property depending in part on positive law, the exercise of that being a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
[Religious liberty was] in its nature an inalienable right ... because the opinions of men, depending only upon the evidence contemplated by… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Besides the obscurity arising from the complexity of objects, and the imperfection of the human faculties, the medium through which the conceptions… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Man, who preys both on the vegetable and animal species, is himself a prey to neither. He too possesses the reproductive principle… — James Madison Copy Share Image
If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government… — James Madison Copy Share Image
In the latter sense, a man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them. He has a property… — James Madison Copy Share Image
No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause . . . . With equal, nay with greater reason,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The Convention thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Whilst we assert for ourselves a freedom to embrace, to profess and observe the Religion which we believe to be of divine… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Before any man can be considered as a member of Civil Society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governour… — James Madison Copy Share Image
In no part of the Constitution is more wisdom to be found than in the clause which confides the question of war… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Every man who loves peace, every man who loves his country, every man who loves liberty ought to have it ever before… — James Madison Copy Share Image
No man can be a competent legislator who does not add to an upright intention and a sound judgment a certain degree… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human… — James Madison Copy Share Image
What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary.… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I go by the great republican principle, that the people will have the virtue and intelligence to select men of virtue and… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The smaller the number and the more permanent and conspicuous the station of men in power, the stronger must be the interest… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Congress should not establish a religion, and enforce the legal observation of it by law, nor compel men to worship God 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.... — James Madison Copy Share Image
The rights of man as the foundation of just Government had been long understood but the superstructures projected had been sadly defective — 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
“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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