James Madison Quotes

We should not be left in unnecessary dependence on external supplies.

The practice of smuggling, which is odious everywhere, and particularly criminal in free governments.

I can not close this communication without expressing my deep sense of the crisis in which you are assembled.

To secure greater respect to our mercantile flag.

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.

In republican government, the legislative authority necessarily predominates.

In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as trul...

If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal contro...

Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression.

Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires.