We are teaching the world the great truth that Governments do better without Kings & Nobles than with them. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption — James Madison Copy Share Image
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. — James Madison Copy Share Image
It is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity toward each other. — 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
Because we hold it for 'a fundamental and undeniable truth', that religion or 'the duty which we owe to our Creator' and… — 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
[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
Rulers who wished to subvert the public liberty, may have found an established Clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just Government instituted to secure… — 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
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
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
...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
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
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
“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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