104 ordspråk av James Madison
James Madison
James Madison föddes den March 16th 1751 och dog den 28 June 1836 - (1809-17), and one of the founding fathers of his country.
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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. |
| Learned institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty. |
| Liberty and order will never be perfectly safe, until a trespass on the constitutional provisions for either, shall be felt with the same keenness that resents an invasion of the dearest rights. |
| Liberty and order will never be perfectly safe, until a trespass on the constitutional provisions for either, shall be felt with the same keenness that resents an invasion of the dearest rights. |
| Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency. |
| Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power. |
| Measures should be enacted which, without violating the rights of property, would reduce extreme wealth towards a state of mediocrity, and raise extreme indigence towards a state of comfort |
| No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment.... |
| No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare. |
| Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. |
| On a candid examination of history, we shall find that turbulence, violence, and abuse of power, by the majority, trampling on the rights of the minority, have produced factions and commotions which, in republics, have, more frequently than any other |
| Our opinions agree as to the evil, moral, political, and economical, of slavery |
| Philosophy is common sense with big words. |
| Precedents once established are so much positive power |
| Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one |
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