James Madison Jr Quotes

• Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

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  Topics in Religion

• A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

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• Liberty and order will never be perfectly safe, until a trespass on the constitutional provisions for either, shall be felt with the same keenness that resents an invasion of the dearest rights.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Liberty, Order

• Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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  Tags in Government, Constitution

• 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.

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  Topics in Education

  Tags in Liberty, Learning, Security

• 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.

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  Tags in Government, Freedom

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

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  Topics in Religion

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

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

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

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  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.

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• Americans have the right and advantage of being armed – unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

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  Topics in America

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• 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.

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  Topics in Religion

• 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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  Topics in Power

  Tags in Government, People

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

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  Topics in Power

  Tags in Government

• The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

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

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  Topics in Knowledge

• To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

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  Tags in Press, World, Mankind

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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