Having outlived so many of my contemporaries, I ought not to forget that I may be thought to have outlived myself. — James Madison Copy Share Image
I regret, as much as any member, the unavoidable weight and duration of the burdens to be imposed; having never been a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
[Regarding legislative assemblies,] the number ought at most to be kept within a certain limit, in order to avoid the confusion and… — James Madison Copy Share Image
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
there ought always to be a constitutional method of giving efficacy to constitutional provisions. What for instance would avail restrictions on the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
If there be a principle that ought not to be questioned within the United States, it is that every man has a… — 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
The passions, therefore, not the reason, of the public would sit in judgment. But it is the reason, alone, of the public,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Waiving the rights of conscience, not included in the surrender implied by the social state, & more or less invaded by all… — 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
The public affairs of the union are spread throughout a very extensive region, and are extremely diversified by the local affairs connected… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The danger of silent accumulations & encroachments by Ecclesiastical Bodies have not sufficiently engaged attention in the U.S. [...] Besides the danger… — James Madison Copy Share Image
In proportion to the value of this revolution; in proportion to the importance of instruments, every word of which decides a question… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It may be considered as an objection inherent in the principle, that as every appeal to the people would carry an implication… — James Madison Copy Share Image
There is not a more important and fundamental principle in legislation, than that the ways and means ought always to face the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
There is one view of the subject which ought to have its influence on those who espouse doctrines which strike at the… — 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
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
The infant periods of most nations are buried in silence or veiled in fable; and the world perhaps has lost but little… — James Madison Copy Share Image
There is an evil which ought to be guarded against in the indefinite accumulation of property from the capacity of holding it… — 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
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 truth was that all men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree. — 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
You give me a credit to which I have no claim in calling me "the writer of the Constitution of the United… — James Madison Copy Share Image
There is not a more important and fundamental principle in legislation, than that the ways and means ought always to face the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Landholders ought to have a share in the government to support these invaluable interests and check the other many. They ought to… — James Madison Copy Share Image
In civilized communities, property as well as personal rights is an essential object of the laws, which encourage industry by securing the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Frequent elections are unquestionably the only policy by which this dependence and sympathy can be effectually secured. But what particular degree of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
[A]ll power is originally vested in, and consequently derived from, the people. That government is instituted and ought to be exercised for… — 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
“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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