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James Madison Quotes

American - President | March 16, 1751 - June 28, 1836

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.

Education Parents Youth Forward He

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.

Freedom Power People Believe Silent

The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.

Personal Right Protection Property

Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.

Unjust Commercial Shackles Oppressive

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.

Home Truth Freedom Loss Liberty

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.

Men Diversity Government First Less

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.

Wisdom Loss Want Wiser Neighbors

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.

Opinion Political Wrong More Right

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

Regret Punishment Fair Capital Trial

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.

Good Reading Leisure Up Must Fill

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.

Pride Luxury Vanity Labor Cherish

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.

Living Dead See Against Seems Made

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