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![In framing a system which we wish to last for ages, we shd. not lose sight of the changes which ages will produce. [James Madison in the U.S. Constitutional Convention, June 26, 1787. The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, ed. Max Farrand (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1966), 1:422.] Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/930/929150/929150.webp "In framing a system which we wish to last for ages, we shd. not lose sight of the changes which ages will produce. [James Madison in the U.S. Constitutional Convention, June 26, 1787. The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, ed. Max Farrand (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1966), 1:422.] Picture Quote #1")
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Americans have the right and advantage of being armed (James Madison Quotes)
I always talk better lying down (James Madison Quotes)
If the people are to be our governors, they must arm themselves with knowledge (James Madison Quotes)
The definition of the right of suffrage is very justly regarded as a fundamental article of republican government (James Madison Quotes)
The better proof of reverence for that holy name would be not to profane it by making it a topic of legislative discussion (James Madison Quotes)
Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty (James Madison Quotes)
America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts (James Madison Quotes)
As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed. As long as the connection subsists between his reason and his self-love, his opinions and passions will have a reciprocal influence on each other, and the former will be objects to which the latter attach themselves (James Madison Quotes)
The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of Government. But what is Government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? (James Madison Quotes)
We have staked the whole future of our new nation, not upon the power of government; far from it. We have staked the future of all our political constitutions upon the capacity of each of ourselves to govern ourselves according to the moral principles of the Ten Commandments (James Madison Quotes)
It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage and such only as he believes to be acceptable to him. This duty is precedent, both in order of time and in degree of obligation, to the claims of Civil Society (James Madison Quotes)
The real difference of interests, lay not between large and small, but between the Northern and Southern states. The institution of slavery and its consequences formed a line of discrimination (James Madison Quotes)
The governments of Europe are afraid to trust the people with arms. If they did, the people would certainly shake off the yoke of tyranny, as America did (James Madison Quotes)
Security against foreign danger is one of the primitive objects of civil society. It is an avowed and essential object of the American Union (James Madison Quotes)
Whilst the last members were signing it Doctr. Franklin looking towards the Presidents chair, at the back of which a rising sun happened to be painted, observed to a few members near him, that Painters had found it difficult to distinguish in their art a rising from a setting sun (James Madison Quotes)
The rights of man as the foundation of just Government had been long understood but the superstructures projected had been sadly defective (James Madison Quotes)
Thus the right of nullification meant by Mr. Jefferson is the natural right, which all admit to be a remedy against insupportable oppression (James Madison Quotes)
Liberty and order will never be perfectly safe until a trespass on the Constitution provisions for either, shall be felt with the same keenness that resents and invasion of the dearest rights (James Madison Quotes)
Of all the objections which have been framed against the federal Constitution, this is perhaps the most extraordinary. Whilst the objection itself is levelled against a pretended oligarchy, the principle of it strikes at the very root of republican government (James Madison Quotes)
If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare... they may appoint teachers in every state... The powers of Congress would subvert the very foundation, the very nature of the limited government established by the people of America (James Madison Quotes)
WHEN THE BALL IS COMING AT 100 MPH FROM PITCHER THERES NOTHING SOFT ABOUT THAT (James Madison Quotes)
A certain degree of preparation for war . . . affords also the best security for the continuance of peace. (James Madison Quotes)
The civil government ... functions with complete success ... by the total separation of the Church from the State. (James Madison Quotes)
In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights (James Madison Quotes)
In framing a system which we wish to last for ages, we shd. not lose sight of the changes which ages will produce. [James Madison in the U.S. Constitutional Convention, June 26, 1787. The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, ed. Max Farrand (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1966), 1:422.] (James Madison Quotes)
As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed. (James Madison Quotes)
The defect of power in the existing confederacy, to regulate the commerce between its several members is in the number of those which have been clearly pointed out by experience . . . . A very material object of this power was the relief of the States which import and export through other States from the improper contributions levied on them by the latter. (James Madison Quotes)
Among the features peculiar to the political system of the United States, is the perfect equality of rights which it secures to every religious sect. (James Madison Quotes)
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. (James Madison Quotes)
The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested in war, and most prone to it. (James Madison Quotes)