Where 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 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-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
JAMES MADISONAll men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
JAMES MADISONWe are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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 executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
JAMES MADISONNo nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
JAMES MADISONUnion of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
JAMES MADISONIf Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
JAMES MADISONReligion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
JAMES MADISONIn Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
JAMES MADISONWar should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.
JAMES MADISONA man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
JAMES MADISONThe truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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 MADISONLiberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
JAMES MADISON