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James Madison Quotes about Liberty - Page 2

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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

Government, Atheism, Liberty

James Madison (1867). “1816-1828”, p.276

The security intended to the general liberty consists in the frequent election and in the rotation of the members of Congress.

Political, Liberty, Term Limits

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1864). “The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States”, p.116

Every word of [the Constitution] decides a question between power and liberty.

Liberty

"The forging of American federalism: selected writings of James Madison".

The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.

Rights, Government, Liberty

James Madison (1999). “Writings”

The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.

Miracle, Liberty, Example

James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.28, University of Virginia Press

It is a melancholy reflection that liberty should be equally exposed to danger whether the government have too much power or too little power and that the line which divides these extremes should be so inaccurately defined by experience.

Reflection, Government, Liberty

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

That this liberty [of the press] is often carried to excess; that it has sometimes degenerated into licentiousness, is seen and lamented, but the remedy has not yet been discovered. Perhaps it is an evil inseparable from the good with which it is allied; perhaps it is a shoot which cannot be stripped from the stalk without wounding vitally the plant from which it is torn. However desirable those measures might be which might correct without enslaving the press, they have never yet been devised in America.

America, Evil, Liberty

James Madison (1906). “The Writings of James Madison: 1790-1802”

Popular liberty might then have escaped the indelible reproach of decreeing to the same citizens, the hemlock on one day, and statues on the next.

Freedom, One Day, Liberty

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.309, Coventry House Publishing

A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.

Communication, Men, Liberty

James Madison (1867). “1829-1836”, p.478

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

Education, Support, Liberty

James Madison (1865). “1816-1828”, p.279

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.

Ambition, Liberty, Made

The Federalist no. 51 (1788)

Rulers who wished to subvert the public liberty, may have found an established Clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just Government instituted to secure & perpetuate it needs them not.

Government, Atheism, Liberty

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

... the State Legislatures will jealously and closely watch the operations of this Government, and be able to resist with more effect every assumption of power, than any other power on earth can do; and the greatest opponents to a Federal Government admit the State Legislatures to be sure guardians of the people's liberty.

Government, People, Liberty

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

I am unable to conceive that the state legislatures which must feel so many motives to watch, and which possess so many means of counteracting the federal legislature, would fail either to detect or to defeat a conspiracy of the latter against the liberties of their common constituencies.

Mean, Liberty, Federalism

A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.

Political, Liberty, United States

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

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

Blessing, Liberty, Poison

"The Federalist on the New Constitution".

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

Loss, Liberty, May

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1852). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in 1788”, p.287

That diabolical Hell conceived principle of persecution rages amoung some and to their eternal Infamy the Clergy can furnish their Quota of Imps for such business.

Religious, Religion, Liberty

James Madison (1867). “1769-1793. v.2. 1794-1815. v.3. 1816-1828. v.4. 1829-1836”, p.12

The temple through which alone lies the road to that of Liberty.

Lying, Liberty, Temples

James Madison (1867). “1816-1828: 1816-1828”, p.517

The citizens of the United States have peculiar motives to support the energy of their constitutional charters.

Support, Liberty, Citizens

James Madison (1865). “Letters and other writings of James Madison”, p.468

Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.

Liberty, Unjust, Socialism

James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.124, University of Virginia Press

If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.

Patriotic, Liberty, Majority

In proportion to the value of this revolution; in proportion to the importance of instruments, every word of which decides a question between power and liberty; in proportion to the solemnity of acts, proclaiming the will authenticated by the seal of the people, the only earthly source of authority, ought to be the vigilance with which they are guarded by every citizen in private life, and the circumspection with which they are executed by every citizen in public trust.

People, Liberty, Citizens

An armed and trained militia is the firmest bulwark of republics - that without standing armies their liberty can never be in danger, nor with large ones safe.

Army, Patriotism, Liberty

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

Happily for the states, they enjoy the utmost freedom of religion. This freedom arises from that multiplicity of sects which pervades America, and which is the best and only security for religious liberty in any society.

Religious, America, Liberty

"The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution".

Born: March 16, 1751 - June 28, 1836
Occupation: 4th U.S. President

Quotes: 548

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