The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money. — James Madison Copy Share Image
The most productive system of finance will always be the least burdensome. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Let the influx of money be ever so great, if there be no confidence, property will sink in value... The circulation of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control… — James Madison Copy Share Image
If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is… — James Madison Copy Share Image
If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare... they may appoint teachers in every state... The powers of Congress would… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The rich man, when contributing to a permanent plan for the education of the poor, ought to reflect that he is providing… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Money cannot be applied to the *general welfare*, otherwise than by an application of it to some *particular* measure conducive to the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
[T]he most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold and those… — 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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