Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
JAMES MADISONWherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
JAMES MADISONIn no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
JAMES MADISONIf men were angels, no government would be necessary.
JAMES MADISONAmerica was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
JAMES MADISONWhat is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
JAMES MADISONWar contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
JAMES MADISONReligion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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 capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.
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 MADISONUnion of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
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 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 MADISONA pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
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 MADISONIf Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
JAMES MADISON