Quotes from James Madison
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
Equal laws protecting equal rights…the best guarantee of loyalty and love of country.
- James Madison
It is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity toward each other.
- James Madison
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
- James Madison
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.
- James Madison
It is a principle incorporated into the settled policy of America, that as peace is better than war, war is better than tribute.
- James Madison
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
A republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect and promises the cure for which we are seeking.
- James Madison
If man is not fit to govern himself, how can he be fit to govern someone else?
- James Madison
It is vain to say that enlightened statesmen will always be able to adjust their interests. Enlightened men will not always be at the helm.
- James Madison
No man can be a competent legislator who does not add to an upright intention and a sound judgment a certain degree of knowledge of the subject on which he is to legislate.
- James Madison
I go by the great republican principle, that the people will have the virtue and intelligence to select men of virtue and wisdom [to the offices of government].
- James Madison