Quotes by : James Madison

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves....

Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and....

I have observed that gentlemen suppose that the general legislature will do every thing mischievous they....

The internal effects of a mutable policy are still more calamitous. It poisons the blessing of liberty....

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions,....

I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent....

it was impossible to confine a Government to the exercise of express powers; there must necessarily be....

Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression. In our Governments,....

If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external....

The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter,....