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Inspirational Quotes by James Madison
- Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
- A standing army is one of the greatest mischief that can possibly happen.
- Resistance to tyranny is service to God.
- Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.…
- Democracy was the right of the people to choose their own tyrant.
- The most productive system of finance will always be the least burdensome.
- The regulation of commerce, it is true, is a new power; but that seems to be an addition which few oppose and from which no…
- [I]t is the reason alone, of the public, that ought to control and regulate the government.
- All power in human hands is liable to be abused.
- Every word decides a question between power and liberty.
- The Constitution of the U.S. forbids everything like an establishment of a national religion.
- Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.
- Thus the right of nullification meant by Mr. Jefferson is the natural right, which all admit to be a remedy against insupportable oppression.
- The temple through which alone lies the road to that of Liberty.
- If man is not fit to govern himself, how can he be fit to govern someone else?
- To consider the degree of concord which ultimately prevailed as less than a miracle.
- The proposed Constitution is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution; but a composition of both.
- The very definition of tyranny is when all powers are gathered under one place.
- Americans have the right and advantage of being armed
- The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded.
- Those who are to conduct a war cannot in the nature of things, be proper or safe judges, whether a war ought to be commenced,…
- Power is of an encroaching nature.
- A public debt is a public curse.
- Congress shall never disarm any citizen unless such as are or have been in actual rebellion.
- If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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