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James Madison, 4th President of the United States and the Father of our Constitution, was born on March 16, 1751.

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James Madison - 4th U.S. President 1809 - 1817 (Photo 18)

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The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war. - James Madison

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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. - James Madison

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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence. - James Madison

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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them. - James Madison

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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority. - James Madison

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I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property. - James Madison

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The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science. - James Madison

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James Madison - 4th U.S. President 1809 - 1817 (Photo 15)

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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home. - James Madison

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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment. - James Madison

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James Madison - 4th U.S. President 1809 - 1817 (Photo 16)

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Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government. - James Madison

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A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person. - James Madison

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The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad. - James Madison

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Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages. - James Madison

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The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy. - James Madison

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The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world. - James Madison

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There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong. - James Madison

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James Madison was Princeton University's first graduate student. He was also our shortest President at just 5'4".

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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree. - James Madison

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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason. - James Madison

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The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state. - James Madison

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It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad. - James Madison

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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done. - James Madison

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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties. - James Madison

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All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former. - James Madison

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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. - ... Read More

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It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood. - James Madison

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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect. - James Madison

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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government. - James Madison

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A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States. - James Madison

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I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. - James Madison

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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money. - James Madison

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The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted. - James Madison

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The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived. - James Madison

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Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad. - James Madison

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James Madison - 4th U.S. President 1809 - 1817 (Photo 5)

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James Madison - 4th U.S. President 1809 - 1817 (Photo 1)

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

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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts. - James Madison

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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people. - James Madison

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Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere. - James Madison

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Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors. - James Madison

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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. - James Madison

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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power. - James Madison

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Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes. - James Madison

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