The 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 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 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 MADISONLiberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
JAMES MADISONAmerica was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
JAMES MADISONThe truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
JAMES MADISONA well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
JAMES MADISONThat part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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 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 MADISONThe essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
JAMES MADISONIf Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
JAMES MADISONAmericans have the right and advantage of being armed – unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
JAMES MADISONA sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
JAMES MADISONA man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
JAMES MADISONAs a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
JAMES MADISONThe advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
JAMES MADISON