No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare. — 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
Our opinions agree as to the evil, moral, political, and economical, of slavery. — 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
The security intended to the general liberty consists in the frequent election and in the rotation of the members of Congress. — James Madison Copy Share Image
The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to which all such institutions must… — 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
Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The nation which reposes on the pillow of political confidence, will sooner or later end its political existence in a deadly lethargy. — James Madison Copy Share Image
We are teaching the world the great truth that Governments do better without Kings & Nobles than with them. — James Madison Copy Share Image
The American people owe it to themselves, and to the cause of free Government, to prove by their establishments for the advancement… — 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
In republican government the legislative authority necessarily predominates. The remedy for this . . . is to divide the legislature into different… — James Madison Copy Share Image
[A] mere demarcation on parchment of the constitutional limits of the several departments is not a sufficient guard against those encroachments which… — 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… — James Madison Copy Share Image
If we resort for a criterion to the different principles on which different forms of government are established, we may define a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The experience of the United States is a happy disproof of the error so long rooted in the unenlightened minds of well… — 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
The house of representatives ... can make no law, which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks-no form of government… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The first question that offers itself is, whether the general form and aspect of the government be strictly republican? It is evident… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It is superfluous to try by the standards of theory, a part of the constitution which is allowed on all hands to… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
But the most deplorable effect of all, is that diminution of attachment and reverence, which steals into the hearts of the people,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The political truths declared in that solemn manner acquire by degrees the character of fundamental maxims of free Government, and as they… — James Madison Copy Share Image
We have staked the whole future of our new nation, not upon the power of government; far from it. We have staked… — James Madison Copy Share Image
But cool and candid people will at once reflect, that the purest of human blessings must have a portion of alloy in… — 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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