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Good conscience is the most valuable asset of all!
— James Madison
A bad cause seldom fails to betray itself.
— James Madison
Liberty is to faction what air is to fire...
— James Madison
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[Christianity] existed and flourishes, not only without the support of human laws, but in spite of every opposition from them.
— James Madison
The security intended to the general liberty consists in the frequent election and in the rotation of the members of Congress.
— James Madison
Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
— James Madison
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[I]t is more convenient to prevent the passage of a law, than to declare it void after it has passed.
— James Madison
If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
— James Madison
A certain degree of preparation for war ... affords also the best security for the continuance of peace.
— James Madison
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[I]t is the reason alone, of the public, that ought to control and regulate the government.
— James Madison
You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.
— James Madison
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To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
— James Madison
The nation which reposes on the pillow of political confidence, will sooner or later end its political existence in a deadly lethargy.
— James Madison
If we are to be one Nation in any respect, it clearly ought to be in respect to other Nations.
— James Madison
The right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the state shall not be questioned.
— James Madison
The definition of the right of suffrage is very justly regarded as a fundamental article of republican government.
— James Madison
It is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity toward each other.
— 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 problem to be solved is, not what form of government is perfect, but which of the forms is least imperfect.
— James Madison
The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man.
— James Madison
War is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement
— James Madison
The characters and events depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
— James Madison
We've staked our future on our ability to follow the Ten Commandments with all our heart.
— James Madison
The proposed Constitution is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution; but a composition of both.
— James Madison
If men were angels, there would be no need of government.
— James Madison
No error is more certain than the one proceeding from a hasty and superficial view of the subject.
— James Madison
A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
— James Madison
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Religion [is] the basis and foundation of Government
— James Madison
A government that does not trust it's law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms is itself unworthy of trust.
— James Madison
Our country, if it does justice to itself, will be the workshop of liberty to the civilized world.
— James Madison
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Truth [comes only] from those ... who cultivate their reason.
— James Madison
The rights of man as the foundation of just Government had been long understood but the superstructures projected had been sadly defective
— James Madison
Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
— James Madison
The censorial power is in the people over the government, and not in the government over the people.
— James Madison
No free country has ever been without Parties, which are a natural offspring of freedom.
— James Madison
Where a majority are united by a common sentiment, and have an opportunity, the rights of the minor party become insecure.
— James Madison
The means of defence agst. foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.
— James Madison
Every word decides a question between power and liberty.
— James Madison
I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
— James Madison
In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
— James Madison
Procrastination in the beginning and precipitation towards the conclusion is the characteristic of such bodies.
— James Madison
A public debt is a public curse.
— James Madison
Are not the daily devotions conducted by these legal ecclesiastics already degenerating into a scanty attendance, and a tiresome formality?
— James Madison
What is here a right towards men, is a duty towards the Creator.
— James Madison
Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
— James Madison
The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded.
— James Madison
Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.
— James Madison
The Convention thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men.
— James Madison
The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad.
— James Madison
Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one.
— James Madison
The establishment of the chaplainship to Congress is a palpable violation of ... constitutional principles.
— James Madison
The citizens of the United States have peculiar motives to support the energy of their constitutional charters.
— James Madison
People will continue to seek justice until it is found, or until liberty is lost in the pursuit.
— James Madison
Congress shall never disarm any citizen unless such as are or have been in actual rebellion.
— 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
It was almost as if reality had finally caught up to us, as if up until this point we'd actually had a chance of escaping it.
— Rhonda James
Security against foreign danger is one of the primitive objects of civil society. It is an avowed and essential object of the American Union.
— James Madison
In all great changes of established governments, forms ought to give way to substance
— James Madison
I am honored to receive the James Beard award and so incredibly proud of my entire team at Eleven Madison Park.
— Daniel Humm
The purpose of the Constitution is to restrict the majority's ability to harm a minority.
— 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
There is a degree of depravity in mankind which requires a certain degree of circumspection and distrust.
— James Madison
The better proof of reverence for that holy name would be not to profane it by making it a topic of legislative discussion ...
— James Madison
In no instance have ... the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people. James Madison, U.S. President
— George Washington
The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex.
— James Madison
The Constitution of the U.S. forbids everything like an establishment of a national religion.
— James Madison
They can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the great mass of the society.
— James Madison
Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the abuses of power.
— James Madison
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[The public has] the habit now of invalidating opinions emanating from me by reference to my age and infirmities.
— James Madison
It is vain to say that enlightened statesmen will always be able to adjust their interests. Enlightened men will not always be at the helm.
— James Madison
A distinction of property results from that very protection which a free Government gives to unequal faculties of acquiring it.
— 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
But the mere circumstance of complexion cannot deprive them of the character of men.
— 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
Democracy is the most vile form of government.
— James Madison
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[The Senate] ought to be so constituted as to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority.
— 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
Power is of an encroaching nature.
— James Madison