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Good conscience is the most valuable asset of all!
— James Madison
The primary function of government is to protect the minority of the opulent from the majority of the poor.
— James Madison
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[Christianity] existed and flourishes, not only without the support of human laws, but in spite of every opposition from them.
— James Madison
Conscience is the most sacred of all property.
— James Madison
Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred.
— James Madison
The security intended to the general liberty consists in the frequent election and in the rotation of the members of Congress.
— James Madison
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[I]t is more convenient to prevent the passage of a law, than to declare it void after it has passed.
— James Madison
If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
— James Madison
A certain degree of preparation for war ... affords also the best security for the continuance of peace.
— James Madison
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[I]t is the reason alone, of the public, that ought to control and regulate the government.
— James Madison
You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.
— James Madison
To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
— James Madison
The nation which reposes on the pillow of political confidence, will sooner or later end its political existence in a deadly lethargy.
— James Madison
The right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the state shall not be questioned.
— James Madison
Expirience is the oracle of truth
— James Madison
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
— James Madison
The growing wealth aquired by them corporations never fails to be a source of abuses.
— James Madison
The definition of the right of suffrage is very justly regarded as a fundamental article of republican government.
— James Madison
It is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity toward each other.
— James Madison
The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
— James Madison
The problem to be solved is, not what form of government is perfect, but which of the forms is least imperfect.
— James Madison
The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man.
— James Madison
War is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement
— James Madison
The characters and events depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
— James Madison
An oath-the strongest of religious ties.
— James Madison
We've staked our future on our ability to follow the Ten Commandments with all our heart.
— James Madison
The proposed Constitution is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution; but a composition of both.
— James Madison
Who are to be the objects of popular choice? Every citizen whose merit may recommend him to the esteem and confidence of his country.
— James Madison
The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home
— James Madison
Respect for character is always diminished in proportion to the number among whom the blame or praise is to be divided.
— James Madison
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Are not the daily devotions conducted by these legal ecclesiastics already degenerating into a scanty attendance, and a tiresome formality?
— James Madison
Armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few.
— James Madison
Freedom arises from a multiplicity of sects, which pervades America, and is the best and only security for religious liberty in America.
— James Madison
The citizens of the United States have peculiar motives to support the energy of their constitutional charters.
— James Madison
The establishment of the chaplainship to Congress is a palpable violation of ... constitutional principles.
— James Madison
The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
— James Madison
Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one.
— James Madison
The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad.
— James Madison
The Convention thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men.
— James Madison
The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded.
— James Madison
Procrastination in the beginning and precipitation towards the conclusion is the characteristic of such bodies.
— James Madison
Can it be of less consequence that the meaning of a Constitution should be fixed and known, than a meaning of a law should be so?
— James Madison
The advice nearest to my heart and deepest in my convictions is that the Union of the States be cherished and perpetuated.
— James Madison
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I flatter myself [we] have in this country extinguished forever the ambitious hope of making laws for the human mind.
— James Madison
An efficient militia is authorized and contemplated by the Constitution and required by the spirit and safety of free government.
— James Madison
Equal laws protecting equal rights ... the best guarantee of loyalty and love of country.
— James Madison
The President is responsible to the public for the conduct of the person he has nominated and appointed.
— James Madison
Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
— James Madison
Security against foreign danger is one of the primitive objects of civil society. It is an avowed and essential object of the American Union.
— James Madison
As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
— James Madison
The Alien bill proposed in the Senate is a monster that must forever disgrace its parents.
— James Madison
I am honored to receive the James Beard award and so incredibly proud of my entire team at Eleven Madison Park.
— Daniel Humm
The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.
— James Madison
The better proof of reverence for that holy name would be not to profane it by making it a topic of legislative discussion ...
— James Madison
Democracy is the most vile form of government.
— James Madison
They can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the great mass of the society.
— James Madison
The Constitution of the U.S. forbids everything like an establishment of a national religion.
— James Madison
The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex.
— James Madison
In no instance have ... the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people. James Madison, U.S. President
— George Washington
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[The public has] the habit now of invalidating opinions emanating from me by reference to my age and infirmities.
— James Madison
The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
— James Madison
It is vain to say that enlightened statesmen will always be able to adjust their interests. Enlightened men will not always be at the helm.
— James Madison
The purpose of the Constitution is to restrict the majority's ability to harm a minority.
— James Madison
It 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 Madison
No error is more certain than the one proceeding from a hasty and superficial view of the subject.
— James Madison
But the mere circumstance of complexion cannot deprive them of the character of men.
— James Madison
The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.
— James Madison
A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
— James Madison
Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
— James Madison
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Religion [is] the basis and foundation of Government
— James Madison
The means of defence agst. foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.
— James Madison
In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
— James Madison
I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
— James Madison
Our country, if it does justice to itself, will be the workshop of liberty to the civilized world.
— James Madison
Where a majority are united by a common sentiment, and have an opportunity, the rights of the minor party become insecure.
— James Madison
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[The Senate] ought to be so constituted as to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority.
— James Madison
A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
— James Madison
People will continue to seek justice until it is found, or until liberty is lost in the pursuit.
— James Madison
The censorial power is in the people over the government, and not in the government over the people.
— James Madison
What is here a right towards men, is a duty towards the Creator.
— James Madison
