James Madison Quotes

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• The Alien bill proposed in the Senate is a monster that must forever disgrace its parents.
• It was by the sober sense of our citizens that we were safely and steadily conducted from monarchy to republicanism, and it is by the…
• The characters and events depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
• Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the same ease any…
• If there be a principle that ought not to be questioned within the United States, it is that every man has a right to abolish…
• It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of citizens…
• Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
• Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant.
• A standing army is one of the greatest mischief that can possibly happen.
• War is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement
• The power to declare war, including the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature.
• The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested in war, and most prone…
• The Constitution of the United States was created by the people of the United States composing the respective states, who alone had the right.
• We have staked the whole future of our new nation, not upon the power of government; far from it. We have staked the future of…
• Religion [is] the basis and foundation of Government
• Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ.
• Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence, and ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption; all of which facilitate the execution of mischievous…
• The religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is the right of every man…
• The experience of the United States is a happy disproof of the error so long rooted in the unenlightened minds of well meaning Christians, as…
• That diabolical Hell conceived principle of persecution rages amoung some and to their eternal Infamy the Clergy can furnish their Quota of Imps for such…

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