All James Madison Quotes
- History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by… Abuse
- Democracy is the most vile form of government. Democracy
- Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government. Charity
- Liberty is to faction what air is to fire... Air
- Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob. Assembly
- Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.... During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been… All
- Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives as they have… Been
- The ultimate authority ... resides in the people alone. Alone
- If we advert to the nature of republican government, we shall find that the censorial power is in the people over the government, and not… Advert
- Stability in government is essential to national character and to the advantages annexed to it, as well as to that repose and confidence in the… Advantage
- The strongest passions and most dangerous weaknesses of the human breast; ambition, avarice, vanity, the honorable or venal love of fame, are all in conspiracy… All
- The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature, that such… Abuse
- Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace. Achieve
- A people armed and free, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition and is a bulwark for the nation against foreign invasion and domestic… Ambition
- Happily for America, happily, we trust, for the whole human race, they pursued a new and more noble course. They accomplished a revolution which has… Accomplished
- We've staked our future on our ability to follow the Ten Commandments with all our heart. Ability
- If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a… Congress
- The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to… Advantage
- All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree. All
- The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad. Abroad
- A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both. Acquiring
- I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse, and in a Republican Government a greater curse than any other. Any
- Government destitute of energy, will ever produce anarchy. Anarchy
- A good government implies two things: fidelity to the object of government, which is the happiness of the people; secondly, a knowledge of the means… Attained
- Experience has proved that the real danger to America and to liberty lies in the defect of energy and stability in the present establishment of… America