That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
JAMES MADISONThat part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
JAMES MADISONWhere 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.
JAMES MADISONA well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
JAMES MADISONAmerica was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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.
JAMES MADISONI entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution.
JAMES MADISONA man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
JAMES MADISONIf 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.
JAMES MADISONThe 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 MADISONThey throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
JAMES MADISONTo suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
JAMES MADISONA well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
JAMES MADISONLearned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
JAMES MADISONReligion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
JAMES MADISONThe happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
JAMES MADISONWar contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
JAMES MADISON