James MadisonThe first question that offers itself is, whether the general form and aspect of the government be strictly republican? It is evident that no other form would be reconcileable wit… ▶371HumanityPolitics
James MadisonIs there a Legislative power in fact, not expressly prohibited by the Constitution, which might not, according to the doctrine of the Court, be exercised as a means of carrying in… ▶371PoliticsTruth
James MadisonThat diabolical Hell conceived principle of persecution rages amoung some and to their eternal Infamy the Clergy can furnish their Quota of Imps for such business. ✨ James M… ▶361Philosophy
James MadisonIt is in vain to oppose constitutional barriers to the impulse of self-preservation. It is worse than in vain; because it plants in the Constitution itself necessary usurpations o… ▶372Politics
James MadisonUnion of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence, and ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption; all of which facilitate the execution of mi… ▶362Time
James MadisonCongress shall have Power . . . to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Time to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective W… ▶373PoliticsSadnessTime
James MadisonIn proportion to the value of this revolution; in proportion to the importance of instruments, every word of which decides a question between power and liberty; in proportion to t… ▶362HumanityLifePolitics
James MadisonThis policy of supplying by opposite and rival interests, the defect of better motives, might be traced through the whole system of human affairs, both private and public. ✨… ▶351Humanity
James MadisonWe have seen the mere distinction of color made in the most enlightened period of time, a ground of the most oppressive dominion ever exercised by man over man. ✨ James Madi… ▶352PoliticsTime
James MadisonThe 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 deri… ▶374HumanityPolitics
James MadisonAs compacts, charters of government are superior in obligation to all others, because they give effect to all others. As truths, none can be more sacred, because they are bound, o… ▶374PoliticsTruth
James MadisonI do not conceive that power is given to the President and Senate to dismember the empire, or to alienate any great, essential right. I do not think the whole legislative authorit… ▶374PoliticsThought
James MadisonAll power in human hands is liable to be abused. ✨ James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). James Madison's Advice to My Country, p.80, University of Virginia Press363HumanityPolitics
James MadisonOur country, if it does justice to itself, will be the workshop of liberty to the civilized world.363Humor
James MadisonThere is one view of the subject which ought to have its influence on those who espouse doctrines which strike at the authoritative origin and efficacious operation of the Governm… ▶341HopePolitics
James MadisonIs there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks-no form of government can render us secure. To suppose that any form of governm… ▶352HumanityPoliticsThought
James MadisonThe defect of power in the existing confederacy, to regulate the commerce between its several members is in the number of those which have been clearly pointed out by experience .… ▶363LifePolitics
James MadisonBy a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of i… ▶353LoveTruth
James MadisonThe establishment of the chaplainship to Congress is a palpable violation of ... constitutional principles. ✨ James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). James Madison's Advice … ▶375Death
James MadisonStability in government is essential to national character and to the advantages annexed to it, as well as to that repose and confidence in the minds of the people, which are amon… ▶375HumanityPoliticsReading
James MadisonIn 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… ▶375Politics
James MadisonAs 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, Ralph Ketcham Selected Writings of James Madison,… ▶353Politics
James MadisonAmerica 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… ▶331Humanity
James MadisonIn Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority. ✨ James Madison, Ralph Ketcham Selected Writings of James Madis… ▶353Humanity
James MadisonThe passions, therefore, not the reason, of the public would sit in judgment. But it is the reason, alone, of the public, that ought to control and regulate the government. The pa… ▶331LovePolitics
James MadisonAt first view it might seem not to square with the republican theory, to suppose either that a majority have not the right, or that a minority will have the force to subvert a gov… ▶375Politics
James MadisonIt is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of citizens and one of the noblest characteristics of the l… ▶343Politics
James MadisonAn armed and trained militia is the firmest bulwark of republics - that without standing armies their liberty can never be in danger, nor with large ones safe. ✨ James Madis… ▶354Time
James MadisonBy 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.321Life
James MadisonThe citizens of the United States have peculiar motives to support the energy of their constitutional charters. ✨ James Madison (1865). Letters and other writings of James M… ▶343Politics
