I have appealed to our own experience for the truth of what I advance on this subject [that the legislative power is… — James Madison Copy Share Image
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
I own myself the friend to a very free system of commerce, and hold it as a truth, that commercial shackles are… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real… — 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
If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real… — 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
I own myself the friend to a very free system of commerce, and hold it as a truth, that commercial shackles are… — James Madison Copy Share Image
We are teaching the world the great truth that Governments do better without Kings & Nobles than with them. — James Madison Copy Share Image
[Montesquieu] lifted the veil from the venerable errors which enslaved opinion, and pointed the way to those luminous truths of which he… — 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
The free system of government we have established is so congenial with reason, with common sense, and with a universal feeling, that… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It is due to justice; due to humanity; due to truth; due to the sympathies of our nature; in fine, to our… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The political truths declared in that solemn manner acquire by degrees the character of fundamental maxims of free Government, and as they… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The truth was that all men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree. — 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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