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" America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts. "

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" Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere. "

James Madison

Now

Darkness

Done

" 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. "

" Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government. "

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

" In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority. "

" Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense. "

" A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both. "

" What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support? "

James Madison

Liberty

Learning

" Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. "

" Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions. "

" 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. "

" We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties. "

" I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution. "

" The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted. "

" 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. "

" And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together. "

" All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former. "

" The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. "

" If men were angels, no government would be necessary. "

" The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security. "

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

" It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad. "

" The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money. "

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

" War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason. "

" The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself. "

" Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done. "

" There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong. "

James Madison

Opinion

Political

" I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property. "

" Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes. "