Quotes by James Madison No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity. -= Federalist No. 10, November 23, 1787 =- No political truth is certainly of greater intrinsic value, or is stamped with the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty than that on which the objection is founded. The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. -= Federalist No. 48, February 1, 1788 =- Nothing has yet been offered to invalidate the doctrine that the meaning of the Constitution may as well be ascertained by the Legislative as by the Judicial authority. -= speech in the Congress of the United States, June 18, 1789 =- Nothing is so contagious as opinion, especially on questions which, being susceptible of very different glosses, beget in the mind a distrust of itself. -= letter to Benjamin Rush, March 7, 1790 =- On the distinctive principles of the Government ... of the U. States, the best guides are to be found in... The Declaration of Independence, as the fundamental Act of Union of these States. -= letter to Thomas Jefferson, February 8, 1825 =- One hundred and seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one. -= Federalist No. 48, February 1, 1788 =- Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one. -= Public Opinion, December 19, 1791 =- Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprize, every expanded prospect -= letter to William Bradford, April 1, 1774 =- Stability in government is essential to national character and to the advantages annexed to it, as well as to that repose and confidence in the minds of the people, which are among the chief blessings of civil society. -= Federalist No. 37, January 11, 1788 =- Such an institution may be sometimes necessary as a defense to the people against their own temporary errors and delusions. -= Federalist No. 63 =- Such will be the relation between the House of Representatives and their constituents. Duty gratitude, interest, ambition itself, are the cords by which they will be bound to fidelity and sympathy with the great mass of the people -= Federalist No. 57, February 19, 1788 =- That diabolical Hell conceived principle of persecution rages among some and to their eternal Infamy the Clergy can furnish their Quota of Imps for such business, -= letter to William Bradford, January 24, 1774 =- That the most productive system of finance will always be the least burdensome. -= Federalist No. 39, January 1788 =- The apportionment of taxes on the various descriptions of property is an act which seems to require the most exact impartiality; yet there is, perhaps, no legislative act in which greater opportunity and temptation are given to a predominant party to trample on the rules of justice. Every shilling which they overburden the inferior number is a shilling saved to their own pockets. -= Federalist No. 10, November 23, 1787 =- The best service that can be rendered to a Country, next to that of giving it liberty, is in diffusing the mental improvement equally essential to the preservation, and the enjoyment of the blessing. -= letter to Littleton Dennis Teackle, March 29, 1826 =- > Showing results 61 to 75 of 121 Subscribe Search Founding Fathers Adams, John (61) Adams, Samuel (63) Bartlett, Josiah (1) Braxton, Carter (1) Carroll, Charles (1) Chase, Samuel (2) Clark, Abraham (2) Clymer, George (4) Ellery, William (14) Floyd, William (0) Franklin, Benjamin (65) Gerry, Elbridge (1) Gwinnett, Button (0) Hall, Lyman (0) Hamilton, Alexander (103) Hancock, John (1) Harrison V, Benjamin (0) Hart, John (0) Henry, Patrick (10) Hewes, Joseph (0) Heyward, Thomas (0) Hooper, William (0) Hopkins, Stephen (0) Hopkinson, Francis (0) Huntington, Samuel (0) Jay, John (1) Jefferson, Thomas (92) Lee, Francis Lightfoot (0) Lee, Richard Henry (3) Lewis, Francis (0) Livingston, Philip (0) Lynch, Thomas (0) Madison, James (121) McKean, Thomas (0) Middleton, Arthur (0) Morris, Lewis (1) Morris, Robert (0) Morton, John (0) Nelson, Thomas (0) Otis, James (2) Paca, William (0) Paine, Robert Treat (0) Paine, Thomas (29) Penn, John (0) Read, George (0) Rodney, Caesar (0) Ross, George (0) Rush, Benjamin (2) Rutledge, Edward (0) Sherman, Roger (0) Smith, James (0) Stockton, Richard (0) Stone, Thomas (0) Taylor, George (0) Thomson, Charles (0) Thornton, Matthew (0) Walton, George (0) Washington, George (110) Whipple, William (0) Williams, William (0) Wilson, James (0) Witherspoon, John (0) Wolcott, Oliver (0) Wythe, George (0) Other Related Sites Political BLOG The 9-12 Project © 2009 FoundingFatherQuotes - This is a Mike Kieffer web property.
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