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James Madison Quotes
A man has a property in his opinions and the free
communication of them.
James Madison
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.
James Madison
A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small
number of citizens, who assemble and administer the
government in person.
James Madison
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 United States.
James Madison
A well regulated militia, composed of the body of
the people, trained in arms, is the best most
natural defense of a free country.
James Madison
A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a
free people.
James Madison
All men having power ought to be distrusted to a
certain degree.
James Madison
All that seems indispensible in stating the account
between the dead and the living, is to see that the
debts against the latter do not exceed the advances
made by the former.
James Madison
Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
James Madison
America was indebted to immigration for her
settlement and prosperity. That part of America
which had encouraged them most had advanced most
rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
James Madison
Americans have the right and advantage of being
armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose
governments are afraid to trust the people with
arms.
James Madison
And I have no doubt that every new example will
succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that
religion and Government will both exist in greater
purity, the less they are mixed together.
James Madison
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 classes.
James Madison
As a man is said to have a right to his property, he
may be equally said to have a property in his
rights.
James Madison
As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and
he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions
will be formed.
James Madison
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 servility, or hatred
and revolt.
James Madison
Commercial shackles are generally unjust,
oppressive, and impolitic.
James Madison
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 has heretofore
done, almost everywhere.
James Madison
Do not separate text from historical background. If
you do, you will have perverted and subverted the
Constitution, which can only end in a distorted,
bastardized form of illegitimate government.
James Madison
Each generation should be made to bear the burden of
its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the
expense of other generations.
James Madison
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 of its
wiser neighbors.
James Madison
I believe there are more instances of the
abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and
silent encroachments by those in power than by
violent and sudden usurpations.
James Madison
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 the laws favor
a subdivision of Property.
James Madison
I should not regret a fair and full trial of the
entire abolition of capital punishment.
James Madison
If men were angels, no government would be
necessary.
James Madison
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will
be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
James Madison
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 who
cultivate their reason.
James Madison
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 the next place
oblige it to control itself.
James Madison
In no instance have... the churches been guardians
of the liberties of the people.
James Madison
In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority
may not sufficiently respect the rights of the
minority.
James Madison
It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at
home is to be charged to the provisions against
danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
James Madison
It will be of little avail to the people that the
laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws
be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so
incoherent that they cannot be understood.
James Madison
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a
people who mean to be their own governors must arm
themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
James Madison
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
crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public
liberty.
James Madison
Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a
long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant
country, in easy stages.
James Madison
Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty,
but also by the abuse of power.
James Madison
No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of
continual warfare.
James Madison
Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps
the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and
develops the germ of every other.
James Madison
Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of
liberty at home is to be charged to provisions
against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
James Madison
Philosophy is common sense with big words.
James Madison
Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than
with the aid of Government.
James Madison
Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind
and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every
expanded prospect.
James Madison
The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the
only guardian of true liberty.
James Madison
The capacity of the female mind for studies of the
highest order cannot be doubted, having been
sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of
erudition, and of science.
James Madison
The circulation of confidence is better than the
circulation of money.
James Madison
The class of citizens who provide at once their own
food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the
most truly independent and happy.
James Madison
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 trust the people with arms.
James Madison
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.
The protection of these faculties is the first
object of government.
James Madison
The essence of Government is power; and power,
lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be
liable to abuse.
James Madison
The executive has no right, in any case, to decide
the question, whether there is or is not cause for
declaring war.
James Madison
The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their
Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of
Liberty throughout the world.
James Madison
The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the
blessings of liberty itself.
James Madison
The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the
provisions against danger, real or imagined, from
abroad.
James Madison
The means of defense against foreign danger
historically have become the instruments of tyranny
at home.
James Madison
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 the
church from the state.
James Madison
The people are the only legitimate fountain of
power, and it is from them that the constitutional
charter, under which the several branches of
government hold their power, is derived.
James Madison
The personal right to acquire property, which is a
natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a
right to protection, as a social right.
James Madison
The purpose of separation of church and state is to
keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife
that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for
centuries.
James Madison
The rights of persons, and the rights of property,
are the objects, for the protection of which
Government was instituted.
James Madison
The truth is that all men having power ought to be
mistrusted.
James Madison
Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than
with the aid of Government.
James Madison
Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind
and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every
expanded prospect.
James Madison
The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the
only guardian of true liberty.
James Madison
The capacity of the female mind for studies of the
highest order cannot be doubted, having been
sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of
erudition, and of science.
James Madison
The circulation of confidence is better than the
circulation of money.
James Madison
The class of citizens who provide at once their own
food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the
most truly independent and happy.
James Madison
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 trust the people with arms.
James Madison
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.
The protection of these faculties is the first
object of government.
James Madison
The essence of Government is power; and power,
lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be
liable to abuse.
James Madison
The executive has no right, in any case, to decide
the question, whether there is or is not cause for
declaring war.
James Madison
The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their
Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of
Liberty throughout the world.
James Madison
The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the
blessings of liberty itself.
James Madison
The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the
provisions against danger, real or imagined, from
abroad.
James Madison
The means of defense against foreign danger
historically have become the instruments of tyranny
at home.
James Madison
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 the
church from the state.
James Madison
The people are the only legitimate fountain of
power, and it is from them that the constitutional
charter, under which the several branches of
government hold their power, is derived.
James Madison
The personal right to acquire property, which is a
natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a
right to protection, as a social right.
James Madison
The purpose of separation of church and state is to
keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife
that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for
centuries.
James Madison
The rights of persons, and the rights of property,
are the objects, for the protection of which
Government was instituted.
James Madison
The truth is that all men having power ought to be
mistrusted.
James Madison
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