James Madison Jr Quotes

• A standing army is one of the greatest mischief that can possibly happen.

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• And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

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• I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.

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• The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.

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• The rights of man as the foundation of just Government had been long understood; but the superstructures projected had been sadly defective.

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• The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.

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• The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.

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• What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?

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• A watchful eye must be kept on ourselves, lest while we are building ideal monuments of renown and bliss here, we neglect to have our names enrolled in the annals of Heaven.

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• Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one.

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• Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

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• What has been the fruit of religion? Pride and indolence in the clergy, ignorance in the laity, in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution.

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• Those innocent screen savers, pictures and games that we once downloaded with abandon have much more ability to play havoc today.

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• We had to stop taking the ball forward, but rather take it on angles laterally, … They were set up in a swarming zone and when we went forward we got double-teamed. I told them to take it hard and fast across the field, instead of forward.

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• I am determined to keep this up. When it started people didn’t think it could go on for too long.

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• Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred.

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• I was there and this is what we meant.

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• No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

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• The nation which reposes on the pillow of political confidence, will sooner or later end its political existence in a deadly lethargy.

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• The proposed Constitution is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution; but a composition of both.

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James Madison Jr (79)

Birth:	16th March, 1751
Death:	28th June, 1836
Nationality:	American
Profession:	President

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James Madison Jr. was born in Port Conway, Virginia, USA. He was an American politician and Founding Father who served as the fourth President of the United States from 1809 to 1817. He is hailed as the "Father of the Constitution" for his pivotal role in drafting and promoting the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights. He studied at Princeton University. He served as a U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia(1789-1797), and a United States Secretary of State from 1801-1809.

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