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If there be a principle that ought not to be questioned within the United States, it is that every man has a right to abolish an old government and establish a new one. This principle is not only recorded in every

If there be a principle that ought not to be questioned within the United States, it is that every man has a right to abolish an old government and establish a new one. This principle is not only recorded in every public archive, written in every American heart, and sealed with the blood of American martyrs, but is the only lawful tenure by which the United States hold their existence as a nation.

James Madison

Heart, Men, Blood

James Madison (1965). “The forging of American federalism: selected writings of James Madison”

We've staked our future on our ability to follow the Ten Commandments with all our heart.

James Madison

4th Of July, Heart, Ability

Every man who loves peace, every man who loves his country, every man who loves liberty ought to have it ever before his eyes that he may cherish in his heart a due attachment to the Union of America and be able to set a due value on the means of preserving it.

James Madison

Country, Heart, Mean

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Quentin P. Taylor, John Jay (1998). “The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers”, p.63, Rowman & Littlefield

But the most deplorable effect of all, is that diminution of attachment and reverence, which steals into the hearts of the people, towards a political system which betrays so many marks of infirmity, and disappoints so many of their flattering hopes. No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected, without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of order and stability.

James Madison

Heart, Government, Attachment

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.306, Coventry House Publishing

The advice nearest to my heart and deepest in my convictions is that the Union of the States be cherished and perpetuated.

James Madison

Heart, Advice, Unions

James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.104, University of Virginia Press

The advice nearest to my heart and deepest in my convictions is that the union of the states be cherished and perpetuated. Let the open enemy to it be regarded as a Pandora with her box opened, and the disguised one as the serpent creeping with his deadly wiles into paradise.

James Madison

Heart, Advice, Enemy

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

If the public homage of a people can ever be worthy of the favorable regard of the Holy and Omniscient Being to Whom it is addressed, it must be that in which those who join in it are guided only be their free choice-by the impulse of their hearts and the dictates of their consciences.

James Madison

Heart, People, Choices

James Madison, Robert Allen Rutland (1984). “The Papers of James Madison: 8 February-24 October 1813”

The experience of the United States is a happy disproof of the error so long rooted in the unenlightened minds of well meaning Christians, as well as in the corrupt hearts of persecuting Usurpers, that without a legal incorporation of religious and civil polity, neither could be supported. A mutual independence is found most friendly to practical Religion, to social harmony, and to political prosperity.

James Madison

Christian, Religious, Heart

James Madison (1965). “The forging of American federalism: selected writings of James Madison”