James Madison Jr Quotes

• 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 Jr

• Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.

  James Madison Jr

  Tags in Government, Constitution

• Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.

  James Madison Jr

  Topics in Religion

• Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.

  James Madison Jr

• All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

  James Madison Jr

• Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

  James Madison Jr

  Topics in Religion

• The number of individuals employed under the Constitution of the United States will be much smaller than the number employed under the particular states. There will consequently be less of personal influence on the side of the former than of the latter.

  James Madison Jr

• The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.

  James Madison Jr

  Topics in Religion

• The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

  James Madison Jr

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Government

• Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

  James Madison Jr

  Topics in Knowledge

• The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.

  James Madison Jr

• What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.

  James Madison Jr

• The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.

  James Madison Jr

  Topics in Power

• Strongly guarded as is the separation between religion and government in the Constitution of the United States the danger of encroachment by Ecclesiastical Bodies, may be illustrated by precedents already furnished in their short history.

  James Madison Jr

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Government

• In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.

  James Madison Jr

  Topics in Democracy

• There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.

  James Madison Jr

  Topics in Politics

• The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

  James Madison Jr

  Topics in Power, Trust, Truth

• 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 Jr

  Topics in Knowledge, Politics

  Tags in Government

• Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other sects?

  James Madison Jr

  Tags in Christianity, Religious Freedom

James Madison Jr (79)

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

About

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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