James Madison Jr Quotes

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  It will be of little avail to the people if the laws are so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

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  Religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

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• In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

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• Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without
  which it instantly expires. But it could not be less folly to
  abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because
  it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation
  of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to
  fire its destructive agency.

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• The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

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• If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

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• The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.

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• Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpation.

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• As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.

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• Philosophy is common sense with big words.

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• Americans have the right and advantage of being armed – unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

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• The American people are too well schooled in the duty and practice of submitting to the will of the majority to permit any serious uneasiness on that account.

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• The Constitution of the United States was created by the people of the United States composing the respective states, who alone had the right.

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• The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

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• Experience has proved that the real danger to America and to liberty lies in the defect of energy and stability in the present establishment of the United States.

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• Liberty and order will never be perfectly safe, until a trespass on the constitutional provisions for either, shall be felt with the same keenness that resents an invasion of the dearest rights.

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• The principles and modes of governments are too important to be disregarded by an inquisitive mind and I think are well worthy a critical examination by all students that have health and leisure.

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• To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

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• The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

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• Learned institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

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James Madison Jr (79)

Birth:	16th March, 1751
Death:	28th June, 1836
Nationality:	American
Profession:	President

About

James Madison Jr. was born in Port Conway, Virginia, USA. He was an American politician and Founding Father who served as the fourth President of the United States from 1809 to 1817. He is hailed as the "Father of the Constitution" for his pivotal role in drafting and promoting the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights. He studied at Princeton University. He served as a U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia(1789-1797), and a United States Secretary of State from 1801-1809.

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