James Madison

If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they…

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one…

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by…

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild…

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree…

To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for…

The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that…

A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system…

The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection…

A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a…

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at…

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning…

I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found…

The essence of Government is power and power, lodged as it must be in human…

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every…