James Madison

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot…

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded…

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must…

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty…

It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be…

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted…

Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to…

The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment…

If men were angels, no government would be necessary…

The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money…

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance and a people who mean to be their own governors…

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by…

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light…

The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is…

The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted…