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James Madison Quotes

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Good conscience is the most valuable asset of all!  (James Madison Quotes) Ambition must be made to counteract ambition  (James Madison Quotes) Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise  (James Madison Quotes) Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done  (James Madison Quotes) Some degree of abuse is inseparable from the proper use of everything  (James Madison Quotes) I always talk better lying down  (James Madison Quotes) All power in human hands is liable to be abused  (James Madison Quotes) Conscience is the most sacred of all property  (James Madison Quotes) Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant  (James Madison Quotes) The ultimate authority... resides in the people alone  (James Madison Quotes) Liberty is to faction what air is to fire  (James Madison Quotes) Democracy is the most vile form of government  (James Madison Quotes) Philosophy is common sense with big words  (James Madison Quotes) What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?  (James Madison Quotes) A public debt is a public curse  (James Madison Quotes) The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money  (James Madison Quotes) Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government  (James Madison Quotes) No nation could preserve it's freedom in the midst of continual warfare  (James Madison Quotes) If men were angels, no government would be necessary  (James Madison Quotes) All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree  (James Madison Quotes) A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them  (James Madison Quotes) The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted  (James Madison Quotes) What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary  (James Madison Quotes) 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 Quotes) Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency  (James Madison Quotes) 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 Quotes) I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations; but, on a candid examination of history, we shall find that turbulence, violence, and abuse of power, by the majority trampling on the rights of the minority, have produced factions and commotions, which, in republics, have, more frequently than any other cause, produced despotism  (James Madison Quotes)