104 ordspråk av James Madison

James Madison

James Madison föddes den 16 marts 1751 och dog den 28 juni 1836 - (1809-17), and one of the founding fathers of his country.
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The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

Our opinions agree as to the evil, moral, political, and economical, of slavery

I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse, and in a Republican Government a greater curse than any other

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.

Freedom

A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.

Such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.

A standing army is one of the greatest mischief that can possibly happen

Armé

Another of my wishes is to depend as little as possible on the labor of slaves

Slave

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

Rättighet

Government destitute of energy, will ever produce anarchy

Precedents once established are so much positive power

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

Respect for character is always diminished in proportion to the number among whom the blame or praise is to be divided.

Respekt

The Clash of Orthodoxies: Law, Religion, and Morality in Crisis.

(Only) a well-instructed people can be a permanently free people.

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