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Religious Quotes by James Madison

38 Religious quotes by James Madison

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Religious liberty is described as an inalienable right that belongs to each person’s mind. Madison says a free government must guard religious rights the same way it guards civil rights. He also warns that forcing a single religion can choke the mind and stop people from doing great things.

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An oath-the strongest of religious ties.

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Religion [is] the basis and foundation of Government

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Conscience is the most sacred of all property.

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Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ.

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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

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In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights.

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Freedom arises from a multiplicity of sects, which pervades America, and is the best and only security for religious liberty in America.

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I have ever regarded the freedom of religious opinions and worship as equally belonging to every sect.

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[N]o religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.

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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.

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Among the features peculiar to the political system of the United States, is the perfect equality of rights which it secures to…

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We have staked the whole future of our new nation, not upon the power of government; far from it. We have staked…

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Torrents of blood have been spilt in the world in vain attempts of the secular arm to extinguish religious discord, by proscribing…

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Happily for the states, they enjoy the utmost freedom of religion. This freedom arises from that multiplicity of sects which pervades America,…

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...Freedom arises from the multiplicity of sects, which prevades America and which is the best and only security for religious liberty in…

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It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage and such only as he believes to be…

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That diabolical Hell conceived principle of persecution rages amoung some and to their eternal Infamy the Clergy can furnish their Quota of…

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No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause; because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not…

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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence, and ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption; all of which facilitate the…

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In the latter sense, a man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them. He has a property…

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Because the bill vests in the said incorporated church an authority to provide for the support of the poor and the education…

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[T]he bill exceeds the rightful authority to which governments are limited by the essential distinction between civil and religious functions, and violates…

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In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. ...under the republican forms…

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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise… During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment…

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As compacts, charters of government are superior in obligation to all others, because they give effect to all others. As truths, none…

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I have received your letter of the 6th, with the eloquent discourse delivered at the consecration of the Jewish Synagogue. Having ever…

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The experience of the United States is a happy disproof of the error so long rooted in the unenlightened minds of well…

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We are teaching the world the great truth that Governments do better without Kings & Nobles than with them. The merit will…

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The religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is the right…

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The civil rights of none, shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established,…

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[Religious liberty was] in its nature an inalienable right ... because the opinions of men, depending only upon the evidence contemplated by…

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Torrents of blood have been spilt in the old world, by vain attempts of the secular arm, to extinguish Religious discord, by…

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Is the appointment of Chaplains to the two Houses of Congress consistent with the Constitution, and with the pure principle of religious…

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In a free Government, the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. It consists in the…

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Among the features peculiar to the political system of the United States, is the perfect equality of rights which it secures to…

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Because the bill in reserving a certain parcel of land in the United States for the use of said Baptist Church comprises…

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No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause . . . . With equal, nay with greater reason,…

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Waiving the rights of conscience, not included in the surrender implied by the social state, & more or less invaded by all…

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It is certain that every class is interested in [educational] establishments which give to the human mind its highest improvements, and to every Country…

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The definition of the right of suffrage is very justly regarded as a fundamental article of republican government.

The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded.

They can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the great mass…

The effect of a representative democracy is to refine and enlarge the public views, by passing them through the medium of a chosen body…

“... But besides the danger of a direct mixture of Religion & civil Government , there is an evil which ought to be guarded…

Although all men are born free, slavery has been the general lot of the human race. Ignorant--they have been cheated; asleep--they have been surprised;…

“It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what is government…

The better proof of reverence for that holy name would be not to profane it by making it a topic of legislative discussion…