James Madison Quotes about Church

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In no instance have... the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.

In no instance have... the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.

James Madison

Atheist, People, Church

A just government has no need for the clergy or the church.

James Madison

Government, Church, Needs

Who does not see that . . . the same authority which can force a citizen to contribute three pence only of his property for the support of any one establishment, may force him to conform to any other establishment in all cases whatsoever?

James Madison

Support, Church, May

James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

Power is of an encroaching nature.

James Madison

Church, States

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.228

[The proposed establishment] will have a . . . tendency to banish our Citizens. . . . To superadd a fresh motive to emigration by revoking the liberty which they now enjoy, would be the same species of folly which has dishonoured and depopulated flourishing kingdoms.

James Madison

Church, Liberty, Would Be

James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing