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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.

As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.

James Madison

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

James Madison

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

James Madison

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

James Madison

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

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

James Madison

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

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

James Madison

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

James Madison

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

James Madison

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

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

James Madison

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

By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.

James Madison

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

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

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

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

James Madison

Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.

James Madison

Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.

James Madison

A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.

James Madison

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?

James Madison

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

James Madison

If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.

James Madison

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

James Madison

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

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

James Madison

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

James Madison

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

James Madison

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

James Madison

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

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

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

James Madison

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

James Madison

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

James Madison

To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

James Madison