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Been Quotes by James Madison
- In contemplating the pecuniary resources needed for the removal of such a number to so great a distance [freed slaves to Africa], my thoughts and…
- When indeed Religion is kindled into enthusiasm, its force like that of other passions is increased by the sympathy of a multitude. But enthusiasm is…
- The important distinction so well understood in America between a constitution established by the people, and unalterable by the government; and a law established by…
- In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by Power. In America ... charters of power [are] granted by liberty.
- A pure democracy can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction. A common passion or interest will be felt by a majority, and there…
- [A]s it must be admitted that the remedy under the Constitution lies where it has been marked out by the Constitution; and that no appeal…
- It is impossible for the man of pious reflection not to perceive in it [the Constitution] a finger of that Almighty hand which has been…
- It becomes all therefore who are friends of a Government based on free principles to reflect, that by denying the possibility of a system partly…
- The defect of power in the existing confederacy, to regulate the commerce between its several members is in the number of those which have been…
- It has been said that all Government is an evil. It would be more proper to say that the necessity of any Government is a…
- Experience assures us, that the efficacy of the provision has been greatly over-rated; and that some more adequate defense is indispensably necessary for the more…
- Experience has instructed us that no skill in the science of government has yet been able to discriminate and define, with sufficient certainty, its three…
- In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by power. America has set the example . . . of charters of power granted by liberty.…
- No free country has ever been without Parties, which are a natural offspring of freedom.
- The fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defense against real, pretended, or imaginary dangers from…
- [Regarding legislative assemblies,] the number ought at most to be kept within a certain limit, in order to avoid the confusion and intemperance of a…
- I have appealed to our own experience for the truth of what I advance on this subject [that the legislative power is the predominant power].…
- The best reason to be assigned, in this case, for not having made the Constitution more free from a charge of uncertainty in its meaning,…
- I regret, as much as any member, the unavoidable weight and duration of the burdens to be imposed; having never been a proselyte to the…
- The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon . . . has ever been justly deemed…
- That this liberty [of the press] is often carried to excess; that it has sometimes degenerated into licentiousness, is seen and lamented, but the remedy…
- [T]he most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold and those who are without…
- Nothing has yet been offered to invalidate the doctrine that the meaning of the Constitution may as well be ascertained by the Legislative as by…
- As the war was just in its origin and necessary and noble in its objects, we can reflect with a proud satisfaction that in carrying…
- Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be…
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