James Madison Quotes

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  Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace.

  James Madison

  Strength, Peace, Army

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• The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded.

  James Madison

  Law, America, Constitution

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• If our nation is ever taken over, it will be taken over from within.

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  Taken, Over It, Nations

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• Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant.

  James Madison

  Rallying Cry, Tyrants, Presidential

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  The purpose of the Constitution is to restrict the majority's ability to harm a minority.

  James Madison

  Majority, Minorities, Purpose

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  Disarm the people- that is the best and most effective way to enslave them.

  James Madison

  Gun, People, Way

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• The ultimate authority resides in the people, and that if the federal government got too powerful and overstepped its authority, then the people would develop plans of resistance and resort to arms.

  James Madison

  Powerful, Government, People

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• We have staked the whole future of our new nation, not upon the power of government; far from it. We have staked the future of all our political constitutions upon the capacity of each of ourselves to govern ourselves according to the moral principles of the Ten Commandments.

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  Bible, God, Religious

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• If man is not fit to govern himself, how can he be fit to govern someone else?

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  Men, Fit, Ifs

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  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

  Education, Wisdom, Freedom

  1822; cited in U.S. Senate, Alleged Assassination Plots (1975).

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• The right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the state shall not be questioned.

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  Bears, Defense, Citizens

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• We are free today substantially, but the day will come when our Republic will be an impossibility. It will be an impossibility because wealth will be concentrated in the hands of a few. A Republic cannot stand upon bayonets, and when the day comes when the wealth of the nation will be in the hands of a few, then we must rely upon the wisdom of the best elements in the country to readjust the laws of the nations to the changed conditions.

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  Wisdom, Country, Hands

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• Armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few.

  James Madison

  Army, Debt, Libertarian

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.106, University of Virginia Press

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

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  Inspirational, Freedom, Fear

  "The Last Enemy" by Rebecca Sato, www.pbs.org. November 11, 2010.

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• People will continue to seek justice until it is found, or until liberty is lost in the pursuit.

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  People, Justice, Liberty

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• 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.

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  Freedom, Believe, Power

  Speech at Virginia Convention, 5 June 1788

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• Democracy is the most vile form of government.

  James Madison

  Government, Democracy, Form

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

  James Madison

  Education, Freedom, Inspirational Life

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.41, University of Virginia Press

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

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  Government, Ideas, People

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.24, University of Virginia Press

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• A President is impeachable if he attempts to subvert the Constitution.

  James Madison

  President, Constitution, Ifs

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• Our Constitution represents the work of the finger of Almighty God.

  James Madison

  Constitution, Almighty, Almighty God

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• [Y]ou will understand the game behind the curtain too well not to perceive the old trick of turning every contingency into a resource for accumulating force in the government.

  James Madison

  Government, Games, Resources

  James Madison (1867). “1794-1815”, p.7

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• Americans need not fear the federal government because they enjoy the advantage of being armed, which you possess over the people of almost every other nation.

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  Freedom, Gun, Government

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• History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and it's issuance.

  James Madison

  Lying, Mean, Government

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• Resistance to tyranny is service to God.

  James Madison

  Liberty, Libertarian, Resistance

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