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James Madison Government Quotes
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24 entries tagged Government quotes by James Madison.
Last updated Apr 2024
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Power must be in the hands of the wealth of the nation, those who have sympathy for property owners and their rights, and who understand that the fundamental task of the government is to protect the minority opulent from the majority.
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In all great changes of established governments, forms ought to give way to substance
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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.
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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.
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A good government implies two things: fidelity to the object of government, which is the happiness of the people; secondly, a knowledge of the means by which that object can be best attained
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Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one.
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I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.
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Strongly guarded as is the separation between religion and government in the Constitution of the United States the danger of encroachment by Ecclesiastical Bodies, may be illustrated by precedents already furnished in their short history
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A good government implies two things: fidelity to the object of government, which is the happiness of the people; secondly, a knowledge of the means by which that object can be best attained.
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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.
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The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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Government destitute of energy, will ever produce anarchy.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse, and in a Republican Government a greater curse than any other.
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The rights of man as the foundation of just Government had been long understood; but the superstructures projected had been sadly defective.
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In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
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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.
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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.
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