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
James Madison quotes about
freedom government people
If we advert to the nature of republican government, we shall find that the censorial power is in the people over the government, and not in the government over the people.
mean giving separation
[T]he great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department consists in giving to those who administer each department the necessary constitutional means and personal motives to resist encroachment of the others.
branches may prudent
What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?
rights government liberty
The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
taxation finance budgets
The most productive system of finance will always be the least burdensome.
peace war government
War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.
miracle liberty world
The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
christian atheist doe
Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other Sects?
patriotic power presidential
Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
philosophy medicine common-sense
Philosophy is common sense with big words.
freedom believe power
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
character government liberty
With respect to the words "general welfare," I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators.
education wisdom freedom
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
numbers people religion
The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.