Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. — James Madison Jr
Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one. — James Madison Jr
A watchful eye must be kept on ourselves, lest while we are building ideal monuments of renown and bliss here — James Madison Jr
Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred. — James Madison Jr
I am determined to keep this up. When it started people didn’t think it could go on for too long. — James Madison Jr
As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights. — James Madison Jr
Respect for character is always diminished in proportion to the number among whom the blame or praise is to be divided. — James Madison Jr
In all great changes of established governments, forms ought to give way to substance. — James Madison Jr
The proposed constitution is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution; but a composition of both. — James Madison Jr
I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse, and in a republican government a greater curse than any other. — James Madison Jr
Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. — James Madison Jr
A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person. — James Madison Jr
A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country. — James Madison Jr
The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim — James Madison Jr
The distinction between liberty and licentiousness is a repetition of the protean doctrine of implication — James Madison Jr
There will consequently be less of personal influence on the side of the former than of the latter. — James Madison Jr
