James Madison actually said...

I am constrained by a deep and solemn conviction that the bill ought not to become a law

Message to the Senate Returning Without Approval 'An Act to Incorporate the Subscribers to the Bank of the United...'

01/29/1815

More James Madison Quotes

Supplies of the most essential kinds find their way not only to British ports and British armies at a distance.

Even the fleets and troops infesting our coasts and waters are by like supplies accommodated and encouraged in their predatory and incursive...

That all violations of the nonimportation act be subjected to adequate penalties.

With all good citizens the justice and necessity of resisting wrongs and usurpations no longer to be borne will sufficiently outweigh the pr...