We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
JAMES MADISONWe are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
JAMES MADISONIt 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 MADISONThe means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
JAMES MADISONAll men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
JAMES MADISONThe advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
JAMES MADISONThey throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
JAMES MADISONEvery nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.
JAMES MADISONA popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
JAMES MADISONThe rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
JAMES MADISONA well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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 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 happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
JAMES MADISONOf all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
JAMES MADISONKnowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
JAMES MADISONIn Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
JAMES MADISON