War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
JAMES MADISONWar contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
JAMES MADISONWherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
JAMES MADISONThe means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
JAMES MADISONA pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
JAMES MADISONThe circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
JAMES MADISONThe advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
JAMES MADISONI should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
JAMES MADISONAs long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
JAMES MADISONAnd 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 MADISONDespotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.
JAMES MADISONNo nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
JAMES MADISONTo suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
JAMES MADISONAll men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
JAMES MADISONWe are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
JAMES MADISONPhilosophy is common sense with big words.
JAMES MADISONThe 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