A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them. — James Madison Copy Share Image
[Property] embraces everything to which a man may attach a value and have a right. — James Madison Copy Share Image
The power of taxing people and their property is essential to the very existence of government. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate wherever the Government assumes a… — 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
A just security to property is not afforded by that government, under which unequal taxes oppress one species of property and reward… — James Madison Copy Share Image
By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the… — 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
That is not a just government, nor is property secure under it, where the property which a man has in his personal… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Who does not see that . . . the same authority which can force a citizen to contribute three pence only of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Measures should be enacted which, without violating the rights of property, would reduce extreme wealth towards a state of mediocrity, and raise… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Government is instituted to protect property of every sort; as well that which lies in the various rights of individuals, as that… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It is sufficiently obvious, that persons and property are the two great subjects on which Governments are to act; and that the… — 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
The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an… — 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
Every new regulation concerning commerce or revenue; or in any manner affecting the value of the different species of property, presents a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
A pure democracy can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction. A common passion or interest will be felt by a… — 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
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
[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
So strong is this propensity of mankind to fall into mutual animosities, that where no substantial occasion presents itself, the most frivolous… — 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
Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society. — James Madison Copy Share Image
I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted. — James Madison Copy Share Image
The most common and durable source of faction has been the various and unequal distribution of property. — James Madison Copy Share Image
A distinction of property results from that very protection which a free Government gives to unequal faculties of acquiring it. — James Madison Copy Share Image
The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a… — 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
As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in… — James Madison Copy Share Image
From the the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different degrees and kinds of property immediately… — 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
The apportionment of taxes on the various descriptions of property is an act which seems to require the most exact impartiality; yet… — 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
A pure Democracy, by which I mean a Society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the Government… — 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… — 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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