James Madison
James Madison
James Madison, Jr.was a political theorist, American statesman, and the fourth President of the United States. He is hailed as the "Father of the Constitution" for his pivotal role in drafting and promoting the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionUS President
Date of Birth16 March 1751
CityPort Conway, VA
CountryUnited States of America
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army gun government
A government resting on the minority is an aristocracy, not a Republic, and could not be safe with a numerical and physical force against it, without a standing army, an enslaved press and a disarmed populace.
minorities purpose majority
The purpose of the Constitution is to restrict the majority's ability to harm a minority.
blow rights government
It becomes all therefore who are friends of a Government based on free principles to reflect, that by denying the possibility of a system partly federal and partly consolidated, and who would convert ours into one either wholly federal or wholly consolidated, in neither of which forms have individual rights, public order, and external safety, been all duly maintained, they aim a deadly blow at the last hope of true liberty on the face of the Earth.
grateful inspire honor
There is in every breast a sensibility to marks of honor, of favor, of esteem, and of confidence, which, apart from all considerations of interest, is some pledge for grateful and benevolent returns. Ingratitude is a common topic of declamation against human nature; and it must be confessed, that instances of it are but too infrequent and flagrant both in public and in private life. But the universal and extreme indignation which it inspires, is itself a proof of the energy and prevalence of the contrary sentiment.
abuse democracy growing
The growing wealth aquired by them corporations never fails to be a source of abuses.
imagination visionaries events
A universal peace, it is to be feared, is in the catalogue of events, which will never exist but in the imaginations of visionary philosophers, or in the breasts of benevolent enthusiasts.
support employment care
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.
bible god religious
Religion [is] the basis and foundation of Government
trust men political
The aim of every political Constitution, is or ought to be first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most virtue to pursue, the common good of society; and in the next place, to take the most effectual precautions for keeping them virtuous whilst they continue to hold their public trust.
tyrants rallying-cry liberty
Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant.
reason
Truth [comes only] from those ... who cultivate their reason.
support liberty peculiar
The citizens of the United States have peculiar motives to support the energy of their constitutional charters.
independent class rights
The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.
new-year years commencement
I hope this will find you...enjoying the commencement of a new year with every prospect that can make it a happy one.