Objects Quotes by James Madison

The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

— James Madison

Who are to be the objects of popular choice? Every citizen whose merit may recommend him to the esteem and confidence of…

— James Madison

The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.

— James Madison

For the same reason that the members of the State legislatures will be unlikely to attach themselves sufficiently to national objects, the…

— James Madison

There never was an assembly of men, charged with a great and arduous trust, who were more pure in their motives, or…

— James Madison

In this relation, then, the proposed government cannot be deemed a national one; since its jurisdiction extends to certain enumerated objects only,…

— James Madison

No distinction seems to be more obvious than that between spiritual and temporal matters. Yet whenever they have been made objects of…

— James Madison

As the war was just in its origin and necessary and noble in its objects, we can reflect with a proud satisfaction…

— James Madison

Security against foreign danger is one of the primitive objects of civil society. It is an avowed and essential object of the…

— James Madison

The government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose…

— James Madison

The powers of the federal government are enumerated; it can only operate in certain cases; it has legislative powers on defined and…

— James Madison

I do not conceive that power is given to the President and Senate to dismember the empire, or to alienate any great,…

— James Madison

In civilized communities, property as well as personal rights is an essential object of the laws, which encourage industry by securing the…

— James Madison

Since it is impossible for the people spontaneously and universally, to move in concert towards their object; and it is therefore essential,…

— James Madison

Whatever may be the judgement pronounced on the competency of the architects of the Constitution, or whatever may be the destiny of…

— James Madison

The liberal appropriations made by the legislature of Kentucky for a general system of education cannot be too much applauded . .…

— James Madison

It is too early for politicians to presume on our forgetting that the public good, the real welfare of the great body…

— James Madison

As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.…

— James Madison

In the latter sense, a man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them. He has a property…

— James Madison

To refer the power in question to the clause "to provide for the common defense and general welfare" would be contrary to…

— James Madison

Besides the obscurity arising from the complexity of objects, and the imperfection of the human faculties, the medium through which the conceptions…

— James Madison

What a perversion of the normal order of things! ... to make power the primary and central object of the social system,…

— James Madison

The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a…

— James Madison

In the first place, it is to be remembered, that the general government is not to be charged with the whole power…

— James Madison

The defect of power in the existing confederacy, to regulate the commerce between its several members is in the number of those…

— James Madison

It is sufficiently obvious, that persons and property are the two great subjects on which Governments are to act; and that the…

— James Madison

I own myself the friend to a very free system of commerce, and hold it as a truth, that commercial shackles are…

— James Madison

The great objects which presented themselves [to the Constitutional Convention] ... formed a task more difficult than can be well conceived by…

— James Madison