James Madison Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

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

“In no instance have... the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.”

“And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.”

“I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.”

“A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.”

“Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.”

“The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.”

“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.”

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

“Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.”