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James Madison
A popular government...
A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a...
To the press...
To the press alone, checquered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained...
If men were...
If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal...
It will be...
It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so...
The truth is...
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
Source: In Tribune...
It is universally...
It is universally admitted that a well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free...
What is government...
What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would...
The proposed Constitution....
The proposed Constitution. . . is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution; but a composition of...
Equal laws protecting...
Equal laws protecting equal rights . . . the best guarantee of loyalty and love of...
All men having...
All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
Source: In The...
Learned Institutions ought...
Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind...
As a man...
As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his...
The happy Union...
The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty...
The diversity in...
The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable...
The essence of...
The essence of government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to...