All James Madison Quotes
- By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and… Cherish
- Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring… Amusement
- The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself. Blessing
- I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and… Abate
- The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of… Been
- What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before… Any
- Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it… Almost Everywhere
- In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in… Administered
- The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests.… Diversity
- What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were… All
- A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the… Co
- Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy… Affair
- To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and… Abuse
- If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens… Citizens
- Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against… Best
- What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest… Each
- The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are… Affair
- A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be… Arms
- If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.… Administered
- The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the State governments, in times… Danger
- Equal laws protecting equal rights…the best guarantee of loyalty and love of country. Best
- I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence,… Article
- Disarm the people- that is the best and most effective way to enslave them. Best
- The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed, or… Accumulation
- The means of defence against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to… All