James Madison Quotes (114 Quotes)


    A cool and candid people will at once reflect that the purest of human blessings must have a portion of alloy in them, that the choice must always be made, if not of the lesser evil, at least of the greater, not the perfect, good.

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

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

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

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


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


    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.

    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.

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

    Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

    Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.

    Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

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


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