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
[Religious liberty was] in its nature an inalienable right ... because the opinions of men, depending only upon the evidence contemplated by… — 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
As compacts, charters of government are superior in obligation to all others, because they give effect to all others. As truths, none… — 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
No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause . . . . With equal, nay with greater reason,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Because the bill vests in the said incorporated church an authority to provide for the support of the poor and the education… — James Madison Copy Share Image
In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Is the appointment of Chaplains to the two Houses of Congress consistent with the Constitution, and with the pure principle of religious… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is the right… — James Madison Copy Share Image
In a free Government, the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. It consists in the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.... During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I have received your letter of the 6th, with the eloquent discourse delivered at the consecration of the Jewish Synagogue. Having ever… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I have ever regarded the freedom of religious opinions and worship as equally belonging to every sect. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ. — 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
No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause; because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Torrents of blood have been spilt in the old world, by vain attempts of the secular arm, to extinguish Religious discord, by… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The civil rights of none, shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
We are teaching the world the great truth that Governments do better without Kings & Nobles than with them. The merit will… — 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
In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. ...under the republican forms… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Torrents of blood have been spilt in the world in vain attempts of the secular arm to extinguish religious discord, by proscribing… — James Madison Copy Share Image
...Freedom arises from the multiplicity of sects, which prevades America and which is the best and only security for religious liberty in… — James Madison Copy Share Image
[N]o religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence, and ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption; all of which facilitate the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Freedom arises from a multiplicity of sects, which pervades America, and is the best and only security for religious liberty in America. — James Madison Copy Share Image
[T]he bill exceeds the rightful authority to which governments are limited by the essential distinction between civil and religious functions, and violates… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage and such only as he believes to be… — 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
Happily for the states, they enjoy the utmost freedom of religion. This freedom arises from that multiplicity of sects which pervades America,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
That diabolical Hell conceived principle of persecution rages amoung some and to their eternal Infamy the Clergy can furnish their Quota of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Because the bill in reserving a certain parcel of land in the United States for the use of said Baptist Church comprises… — 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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