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The danger from legislative usurpations, which, by assembling all power in the same hands, must lead to the same tyranny as is threatened by executive usurpations (James Madison Quotes)
The inference to which we are brought is that the causes of faction cannot be removed and that relief is only to be sought in the means of controlling its effects (James Madison Quotes)
Extend the sphere and you take in a greater variety of parties and interests; you make it less probable that a majority of the whole will have common motive to invade the rights of other citizens (James Madison Quotes)
A just security to property is not afforded by that government, under which unequal taxes oppress one species of property and reward another species (James Madison Quotes)
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 (James Madison Quotes)
If this spirit shall ever be so far debased, as to tolerate a law not obligatory on the legislature, as well as on the people, the people will be prepared to tolerate any thing but liberty (James Madison Quotes)
Our country, if it does justice to itself, will be the workshop of liberty to the civilized world (James Madison Quotes)
The passions, therefore, not the reason, of the public would sit in judgment. But it is the reason, alone, of the public, that ought to control and regulate the government. The passions ought to be controlled and regulated by the government (James Madison Quotes)
These considerations and many others that might be mentioned prove, and experience confirms it, that artisans and manufacturers will commonly be disposed to bestow their votes on merchants (James Madison Quotes)
The fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defense against real, pretended, or imaginary dangers from abroad (James Madison Quotes)
The regulation of these various and interfering interests forms the principal task of modern legislation and involves the spirit of party and faction in the necessary and ordinary operations of government (James Madison Quotes)
It would have marked a want of foresight in the convention, which our own experience would have rendered inexcusable (James Madison Quotes)
It may well happen that the public voice, pronounced by the representatives of the people, will be more constant to the public good than if pronounced by the people themselves (James Madison Quotes)
It may be concluded that a pure democracy... can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction (James Madison Quotes)
The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon... has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right (James Madison Quotes)
From the the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different degrees and kinds of property immediately results (James Madison Quotes)
Nothing is so contagious as opinion, especially on questions which, being susceptible of very different glosses, beget in the mind a distrust of itself (James Madison Quotes)
A republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect and promises the cure for which we are seeking (James Madison Quotes)
It is of great importance in a republic, not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers; but to guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part (James Madison Quotes)
I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse and in a republican government more than in any other (James Madison Quotes)
A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions (James Madison Quotes)
To provide employment for the poor, and support for the indigent, is among the primary, and, at the same time, not least difficult cares of the public authority (James Madison Quotes)
The problem to be solved is, not what form of government is perfect, but which of the forms is least imperfect (James Madison Quotes)
Every new and successful example of a perfect separation between ecclesiastical and civil matters is of importance (James Madison Quotes)
Let the influx of money be ever so great, if there be no confidence, property will sink in value... The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money (James Madison Quotes)
If man is not fit to govern himself, how can he be fit to govern someone else? (James Madison Quotes)
Conscience is the most sacred of all property; other property depending in part on positive law, the exercise of that, being a natural and unalienable right (James Madison Quotes)
They can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the great mass of the society (James Madison Quotes)
There is a degree of depravity in mankind which requires a certain degree of circumspection and distrust (James Madison Quotes)
Nothing could be more irrational than to give the people power, and to withhold from them information without which power is abused (James Madison Quotes)