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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home. - James Madison Quotes

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

American President Quotes Danger

I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse, and in a Republican Government a greater curse than any other - James Madison Quotes

I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse, and in a Republican Government a greater curse than any other

Debt

To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression - James Madison Quotes

To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression

Abuse

I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents. - James Madison Quotes

I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.

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 Quotes

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.

American President Quotes Constitution

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. - James Madison Quotes

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

American President Quotes

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 Quotes

A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.

American President Quotes Body

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 Quotes

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

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 Quotes

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.

American President Quotes Choice

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 Quotes

The Constitution of the United States was created by the people of the United States composing the respective states, who alone had the right .

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy - James Madison Quotes

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy

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 Quotes

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

Doubt

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 Quotes

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

On a candid examination of history, we shall find that turbulence, violence, and abuse of power, by the majority, trampling on the rights of the minority, have produced factions and commotions which, in republics, have, more frequently than any other - James Madison Quotes

On a candid examination of history, we shall find that turbulence, violence, and abuse of power, by the majority, trampling on the rights of the minority, have produced factions and commotions which, in republics, have, more frequently than any other

Abuse

The American people are too well schooled in the duty and practice of submitting to the will of the majority to permit any serious uneasiness on that account - James Madison Quotes

The American people are too well schooled in the duty and practice of submitting to the will of the majority to permit any serious uneasiness on that account

Duty

Measures should be enacted which, without violating the rights of property, would reduce extreme wealth towards a state of mediocrity, and raise extreme indigence towards a state of comfort - James Madison Quotes

Measures should be enacted which, without violating the rights of property, would reduce extreme wealth towards a state of mediocrity, and raise extreme indigence towards a state of comfort

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 Quotes

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.

American President Quotes Home

A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person. - James Madison Quotes

A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.

American President Quotes Democracy

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 controlling money and its issuance. - 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 controlling money and its issuance.

In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority - James Madison Quotes

In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority

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 Quotes

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

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 Quotes

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.

American President Quotes

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 Quotes

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.

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 Quotes

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

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 Quotes

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.

American President Quotes

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 Quotes

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.

America American President Quotes

Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one - James Madison Quotes

Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one

Another of my wishes is to depend as little as possible on the labor of slaves - James Madison Quotes

Another of my wishes is to depend as little as possible on the labor of slaves

Labor

Government destitute of energy, will ever produce anarchy - James Madison Quotes

Government destitute of energy, will ever produce anarchy

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 Quotes

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.

American President Quotes Diversity

Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. - James Madison Quotes

Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

In all great changes of established governments, forms ought to give way to substance - James Madison Quotes

In all great changes of established governments, forms ought to give way to substance

But ambitious encroachments of the federal government, on the authority of the State governments, would not excite the opposition of a single State, or of a few States only. They would be signals of general alarm... But what degree of madness could ever drive the federal government to such an extremity. - James Madison Quotes

But ambitious encroachments of the federal government, on the authority of the State governments, would not excite the opposition of a single State, or of a few States only. They would be signals of general alarm... But what degree of madness could ever drive the federal government to such an extremity.

Each State, in ratifying the Constitution, is considered as a sovereign body, independent of all others, and only to be bound by its own voluntary act. In this relation, then, the new Constitution will, if established, be a FEDERAL, and not a NATIONAL constitution. - James Madison Quotes

Each State, in ratifying the Constitution, is considered as a sovereign body, independent of all others, and only to be bound by its own voluntary act. In this relation, then, the new Constitution will, if established, be a FEDERAL, and not a NATIONAL constitution.

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 Quotes

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.

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty. - James Madison Quotes

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

American President Quotes Knowledge

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 federal and partly consolidated, and who would convert ours into one either wholly federal or wholly consolidated, in neither of which forms have individual rights, public order, and external safety, been all duly maintained, they aim a deadly blow at the last hope of true liberty on the face of the Earth. - James Madison Quotes

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 federal and partly consolidated, and who would convert ours into one either wholly federal or wholly consolidated, in neither of which forms have individual rights, public order, and external safety, been all duly maintained, they aim a deadly blow at the last hope of true liberty on the face of the Earth.

The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to which all such institutions must be sacrificed - James Madison Quotes

The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to which all such institutions must be sacrificed

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 Quotes

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

American President Quotes Ignorance

completely and utterly untrue. - James Madison Quotes

completely and utterly untrue.

Indulging no passions which trespass on the rights or the repose of other nations, it has been the true glory of the US to cultivate peace by observing justice, and to entitle themselves to the respect of the nations at war by fulfilling their neutra - James Madison Quotes

Indulging no passions which trespass on the rights or the repose of other nations, it has been the true glory of the US to cultivate peace by observing justice, and to entitle themselves to the respect of the nations at war by fulfilling their neutra

Glory

Precedents once established are so much positive power - James Madison Quotes

Precedents once established are so much positive power

We had to stop taking the ball forward, but rather take it on angles laterally, ... They were set up in a swarming zone and when we went forward we got double-teamed. I told them to take it hard and fast across the field, instead of forward. - James Madison Quotes

We had to stop taking the ball forward, but rather take it on angles laterally, ... They were set up in a swarming zone and when we went forward we got double-teamed. I told them to take it hard and fast across the field, instead of forward.

The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world - James Madison Quotes

The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world

The Clash of Orthodoxies: Law, Religion, and Morality in Crisis. - James Madison Quotes

The Clash of Orthodoxies: Law, Religion, and Morality in Crisis.

We had some great set-ups with Inge and Jessica Miller in the middle, ... Inge gets better and better everyday. I think at first she had to get used to what was going on, but she is really starting to move the ball well and ignite our attack. - James Madison Quotes

We had some great set-ups with Inge and Jessica Miller in the middle, ... Inge gets better and better everyday. I think at first she had to get used to what was going on, but she is really starting to move the ball well and ignite our attack.

A watchful eye must be kept on ourselves, lest while we are building ideal monuments of renown and bliss here, we neglect to have our names enrolled in the annals of Heaven - James Madison Quotes

A watchful eye must be kept on ourselves, lest while we are building ideal monuments of renown and bliss here, we neglect to have our names enrolled in the annals of Heaven

[Some people might say,] Aha! They forgot about the Constitution's general welfare clause! ... With respect to the two words 'general welfare,' I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators. - James Madison Quotes

[Some people might say,] Aha! They forgot about the Constitution's general welfare clause! ... With respect to the two words 'general welfare,' I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators.

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 Quotes

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.

American President Quotes

Philosophy is common sense with big words. - James Madison Quotes

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

American President Quotes

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