If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
JAMES MADISONIf men were angels, no government would be necessary.
JAMES MADISONThe personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.
JAMES MADISONThe protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
JAMES MADISONIf Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
JAMES MADISONA well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
JAMES MADISONWhat spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?
JAMES MADISONA man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
JAMES MADISONThe diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests.
JAMES MADISONEach generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
JAMES MADISONThe circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
JAMES MADISONAs long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
JAMES MADISONWar contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
JAMES MADISONIt will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
JAMES MADISONThe executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
JAMES MADISONI believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
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 MADISON