Quotes by "James Madison"
A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
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.
No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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.
You give me a credit to which I have no claim in calling me 'the writer of the Constitution of the United States.' This was not, like the fabled Goddess of Wisdom, the offspring of a single brain. It ought to be regarded as the work of many heads and many hands.
