...to support the Constitution, which is the cement of the Union, as well in its limitations as in its authorities; to respect… — James Madison Copy Share Image
An armed and trained militia is the firmest bulwark of republics - that without standing armies their liberty can never be in… — James Madison Copy Share Image
In time of actual war, great discretionary powers are constantly given to the Executive Magistrate. Constant apprehension of War, has the same… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The means of defence against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
A standing army is one of the greatest mischief that can possibly happen. — James Madison Copy Share Image
A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. — James Madison Copy Share Image
A government resting on the minority is an aristocracy, not a Republic, and could not be safe with a numerical and physical… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace. — 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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