James Madison Jr Quotes

• The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

  James Madison Jr

  Topics in America

  Tags in Constitution, American

• 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

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

  James Madison Jr

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• The Constitution of the United States was created by the people of the United States composing the respective states, who alone had the right.

  James Madison Jr

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  Tags in Constitution, American

• 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

• 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.

  James Madison Jr

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Example

• 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

• Philosophy is common sense with big words.

  James Madison Jr

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• 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

• Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpation.

  James Madison Jr

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Freedom, Mankind, Civilization

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

  James Madison Jr

  Topics in Democracy

• The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.

  James Madison Jr

  Topics in Politics, Religion

• 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

• It will be of little avail to the people if the laws are so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

  James Madison Jr

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Law And Lawyers, Understood

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

  James Madison Jr

  Topics in Power, Trust, Truth

• If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

  James Madison Jr

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  Tags in Tyranny, War

• 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 Religious Freedom, Christianity

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

  James Madison Jr

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  Tags in War

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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