James Madison Quotes: Top 20 Best Quotes Of James Madison
James Madison (16 March 1751 – 28 June 1836) was the fourth (1809–1817) President of the United States. He was co-author, with John Jay and Alexander Hamilton, of the Federalist Papers, and is traditionally regarded as the Father of the United States Constitution.
James Madison Quotes:
James Madison Quotes
1. Equal laws protecting equal rights…the best guarantee of loyalty and love of country.
― James Madison
2. All men having power ought to be mistrusted.
― James Madison
3. It is too early for politicians to presume on our forgetting that the public good, the real welfare of the great body of the people, is the supreme object to be pursued; and that no form of government whatever has any other value than as it may be fitted for the attainment of this object.
― James Madison
4. Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
― James Madison
5. The means of defence agst. foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.
― James Madison
6. I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
― James Madison
7. In the latter sense, a man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them. He has a property of peculiar value in his religious opinions, and in the profession and practice dictated by them . . . . He has an equal property in the free use of his faculties and free choice of the objects on which to employ them. In a word, as a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
― James Madison
8. War ... 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 Madison
9. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives. A 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 Madison
10. Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
― James Madison
11. Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprize, every expanded prospect.
― James Madison
12. As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
― James Madison
13. No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
― James Madison
14. If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
― James Madison
15. We hold it for a fundamental and undeniable truth "that religion, or the duty which we owe our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence." The religion, then, of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man: and that it is the right of every man to exercise it as these may dictate.
― James Madison
16. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
― James Madison
17. Learned institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
― James Madison
18. It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage, and such only, as he believes to be acceptable to him. This duty is precedent both in order of time and degree of obligation, to the claims of Civil Society. Before any man can be considered as a member of Civil Society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe.
― James Madison
19. Conscience is the most sacred of all property.
― James Madison
20. A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
― James Madison
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