Quotes by James Madison

Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other...

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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which...

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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.

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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

#James Madison

All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is...

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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

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A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is...

#James Madison

A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.

#James Madison

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

#James Madison

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded,...

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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of...

#James Madison