3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 James Madison The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 James Madison To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
3 December 2020 James Madison No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
3 December 2020 James Madison 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?
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 James Madison Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 James Madison Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 James Madison In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
3 December 2020 James Madison 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 James Madison A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 James Madison The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
3 December 2020 James Madison The essence of Government is power and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
