James Madison Quotes about Justice

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People will continue to seek justice until it is found, or until liberty is lost in the pursuit.

People will continue to seek justice until it is found, or until liberty is lost in the pursuit.

James Madison

People, Justice, Liberty

That the foundation of our national policy should be laid in private morality. If individuals be not influenced by moral principles, it is in vain to look for public virtue; it is, therefore, the duty of legislators to enforce, both by precept and example, the utility, as well as the necessity, of a strict adherence to the rules of distributive justice.

James Madison

Justice, Voting, Foundation

Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.

James Madison

Government, Justice, Voting

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.241

Measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority.

James Madison

Party, Rights, Justice

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.42

Our country, if it does justice to itself, will be the workshop of liberty to the civilized world.

James Madison

Country, Freedom, Justice

The eyes of the world being thus on our Country, it is put the more on its good behavior, and under the greater obligation also, to do justice to the Tree of Liberty by an exhibition of the fine fruits we gather from it.

James Madison

Country, Eye, Justice

James Madison (1867). “1816-1828”, p.473

If they are incorporated into the Constitution, independent tribunals of justice will consider themselves in a peculiar manner the guardians of those rights; they will be an impenetrable bulwark against every assumption of power in the legislative or executive; they will be naturally led to resist every encroachment upon rights expressly stipulated for in the Constitution by the declaration of rights.

James Madison

Independent, Rights, Justice

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

As the war was just in its origin and necessary and noble in its objects, we can reflect with a proud satisfaction that in carrying it on no principle of justice or honor, no usage of civilized nations, no precept of courtesy or humanity, have been infringed.

James Madison

War, Justice, Humanity

James Madison, Robert Allen Rutland (2008). “The Papers of James Madison: 8 February-24 October 1813”