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
- circulation
- no-confidence
- ifs
- regulation
- commerce
- apprehension
- endangered
- liberty
- numbers
- choices
- ambitious
- federalism
- constitution
- composition
- relief
- states
- constitution-of-the-united-states
- individual
- imagination
- visionaries
- events
- unjust
- shackles
- minorities
- purpose
- majority
- grateful
- inspire
- honor
endangered liberty
Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the abuses of power.
circulation no-confidence ifs
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.
minorities purpose majority
The purpose of the Constitution is to restrict the majority's ability to harm a minority.
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.
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.
federalism constitution composition
The proposed Constitution is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution; but a composition of both.
unjust shackles commerce
I own myself the friend to a very free system of commerce, and hold it as a truth, that commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive and impolitic.
numbers choices ambitious
Reason, on the contrary, assures us, that as in so great a number, a fit representative would be most likely to be found, so the choice would be less likely to be diverted from him, by the intrigues of the ambitious, or the bribes of the rich.
regulation commerce apprehension
The regulation of commerce, it is true, is a new power; but that seems to be an addition which few oppose and from which no apprehensions are entertained.
numbers relief states
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.
numbers constitution-of-the-united-states individual
The number of individuals employed under the Constitution of the United States will be much smaller than the number employed under the particular States.