If men were angels, no government would be necessary. James Madison American President More James Madison Quotes 60
A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them. James Madison American President More James Madison Quotes 3
A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people. James Madison American President More James Madison Quotes 3
All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree. James Madison American President More James Madison Quotes 3
Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. James Madison American President More James Madison Quotes 3
Philosophy is common sense with big words. James Madison American President More James Madison Quotes 3
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 American President More James Madison Quotes 1
War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason. James Madison American President More James Madison Quotes 1
War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits. James Madison American President More James Madison Quotes 0
We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties. James Madison American President More James Madison Quotes 0
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 to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. James Madison American President More James Madison Quotes 0
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 they can be executed? James Madison American President More James Madison Quotes 0
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 support? James Madison American President More James Madison Quotes 0
Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense. James Madison American President More James Madison Quotes 0
Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions. James Madison American President More James Madison Quotes 0
Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done. James Madison American President More James Madison Quotes 0
In no instance have . . . the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people. James Madison American President More James Madison Quotes 0
Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpation. James Madison American President More James Madison Quotes 0
Strongly guarded as is the separation between religion and government in the Constitution of the United States the danger of encroachment by Ecclesiastical Bodies, may be illustrated by precedents already furnished in their short history. James Madison American President More James Madison Quotes 0
The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. James Madison American President More James Madison Quotes 0
The Constitution of the United States was created by the people of the United States composing the respective states, who alone had the right . James Madison American President More James Madison Quotes 0
The number of individuals employed under the Constitution of the United States will be much smaller than the number employed under the particular states. There will consequently be less of personal influence on the side of the former than of the latter. James Madison American President More James Madison Quotes 0
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. James Madison American President More James Madison Quotes 0
Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other sects? Memorial and Remonstrance. James Madison American President More James Madison Quotes 0
Liberty and order will never be perfectly safe, until a trespass on the constitutional provisions for either, shall be felt with the same keenness that resents an invasion of the dearest rights. James Madison American President More James Madison Quotes 0