Quotes by James Madison The civil rights of none, shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established, nor shall the full and equal rights of conscience be in any manner, or on any pretext infringed. -= proposed amendment to the Constitution, given in a speech in the House of Representatives, 1789 =- The diversity in the faculties of men from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government. -= Federalist No. 10, November 23, 1787 =- The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. -= speech in the Virginia constitutional convention, Dec 2, 1829 =- The eyes of the world being thus on our Country, it is put the more on its good behavior, and under the greater obligation also, to do justice to the Tree of Liberty by an exhibition of the fine fruits we gather from it. -= letter to James Monroe, December 16, 1824 =- The great desideratum in Government is, so to modify the sovereignty as that it may be sufficiently neutral between different parts of the Society to control one part from invading the rights of another, and at the same time sufficiently controlled itself, from setting up an interest adverse to that of the entire Society. -= letter to Thomas Jefferson, October 24, 1787 =- The house of representatives...can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as the great mass of society. This has always been deemed one of the strongest bonds by which human policy can connect the rulers and the people together. It creates between them that communion of interest, and sympathy of sentiments, of which few governments have furnished examples; but without which every government degenerates into tyranny. -= Federalist No. 57, February 19, 1788 =- The invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents, but from acts in which the Government is the mere instrument of the major number of the Constituents. -= letter to Thomas Jefferson, October 17, 1788 =- The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man. -= Federalist No. 10, November 23, 1787 =- The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex. -= Federalist No. 48, February 1, 1788 =- The members of the legislative department...are numerous. They are distributed and dwell among the people at large. Their connections of blood, of friendship, and of acquaintance embrace a great proportion of the most influential part of the society...they are more immediately the confidential guardians of their rights and liberties. -= Federalist No. 50, February 5, 1788 =- 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. -= Federalist No. 45, January 26, 1788 =- The passions, therefore, not the reason, of the public would sit in judgment. But it is the reason, alone, of the public, that ought to control and regulate the government. The passions ought to be controlled and regulated by the government. -= Federalist No. 49, February 5, 1788 =- The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. -= Federalist No. 45, January 26, 1788 =- The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon ... has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right. -= Virginia Resolutions, December 21, 1798 =- 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 usurpations. -= speech to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 16, 1788 =- > Showing results 76 to 90 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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