James Madison

If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they…

A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is…

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light…

The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment…

The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is…

The essence of Government is power and power, lodged as it must be in human…

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government…

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every…

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot…

A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble…