20 Quotations by James Madison
- 1. A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer ...
- 2. A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natu ...
- 3. All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
- 4. As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his r ...
- 5. Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatibl ...
- 6. Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted th ...
- 7. I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and si ...
- 8. If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
- 9. If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
- 10. It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against ...
- 11. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm th ...
- 12. Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over ...
- 13. Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an ailment without which it instantly expires. But it co ...
- 14. Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
- 15. No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judg ...
- 16. The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an i ...
- 17. The proposed Constitution is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution; but a co ...
- 18. We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
- 19. We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from ...
- 20. What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, n ...
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