James Madison

Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government. ↗

— James Madison

#government-spending #charity

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

#his #man #may #property #right

Liberty is to faction what air is to fire... ↗

— James Madison

#freedom

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

— James Madison

#political-philosophy

if men were angels no government would be necessary ↗

— James Madison

#men

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

#freedom #freedom

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

#agriculture #america #arts #encouraged #had

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. ↗

— James Madison

#done #doubt #every #example #exist

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. ↗

— James Madison

#afraid #almost #armed #arms #being

If men were angels, no government would be necessary. ↗

— James Madison

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