James Madison Quotes

"Ambition must be made to counteract ambition."

"In republican government, the legislative authority necessarily predominates."

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

"As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed."

"The public good is disregarded in the conflicts of rival parties, and the measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior f..."

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

"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."

"It is in vain to say that enlightened statesmen will be able to adjust these clashing interests, and render them all subservient to the public good. Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the hel..."