The advice nearest to my heart and deepest in my convictions is that the Union of the States be cherished and perpetuated. — James Madison Copy Share Image
In the extent and proper structure of the Union, therefore, we behold a republican remedy for the disease incident to republican government. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Security against foreign danger is one of the primitive objects of civil society. It is an avowed and essential object of the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Among the numerous advantages promised by a well-constructed Union, none deserves to be more accurately developed than its tendency to break and… — James Madison Copy Share Image
On the distinctive principles of the Government ... of the U. States, the best guides are to be found in ... The… — 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
Every man who loves peace, every man who loves his country, every man who loves liberty ought to have it ever before… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The advice nearest to my heart and deepest in my convictions is that the union of the states be cherished and perpetuated.… — James Madison Copy Share Image
there ought always to be a constitutional method of giving efficacy to constitutional provisions. What for instance would avail restrictions on the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The public affairs of the union are spread throughout a very extensive region, and are extremely diversified by the local affairs connected… — James Madison Copy Share Image
...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
“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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