James Madison Quotes about Military

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A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.

A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.

James Madison

Military, Long, Liberty

James Madison (1787). “The Writings of James Madison: 1787. The journal of the Constitutional convention”, p.317

Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.... Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several kingdoms of Europe, which are carried as far as the public resources will bear, the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

James Madison

Military, Government, Europe

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.221

A standing army is one of the greatest mischief that can possibly happen.

James Madison

Military, Army, Mischief

...to support the Constitution, which is the cement of the Union, as well in its limitations as in its authorities; to respect the rights and authorities reserved to the States and to the people as equally incorporated with and essential to the success of the general system;... to keep within the requisite limits a standing military force, always remembering that 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.

James Madison

Military, Army, Gun

First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1809.

... large and permanent military establishments ... are forbidden by the principles of free government, and against the necessity of which the militia were meant to be a constitutional bulwark.

James Madison

Military, Government, President

...several of the first presidents, including Jefferson and Madison, generally refused to issue public prayers, despite importunings to do so. Under pressure, Madison relented in the War Of 1812, but held to his belief that chaplains shouldn't be appointed to the military or be allowed to open Congress.

James Madison

Prayer, Military, War

In time of actual war, great discretionary powers are constantly given to the Executive Magistrate. Constant apprehension of War, has the same tendency to render the head too large for the body. A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.

James Madison

Military, War, Long

James Madison (1787). “The Writings of James Madison: 1787. The journal of the Constitutional convention”, p.317