The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
Quote by James Madison
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The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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James Madison Quotes
- In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
- Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.
- The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
- The essence of Government is power and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
- The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
- 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.
- Knowledge will forever govern ignorance and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
- In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
- All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
- War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
Best Quotes
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
- About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
- Let wind blow and the rain fall to wash and take away all problems, it's time for a change.
- I don't think know if anything's going to translate anywhere. You're making a movie, you hope it's going to be funny, you can't think about how it's going to go over.
- Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
- He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.
- I think that sense of humor is important in marriage. A sense of humor gets people through marriage.
- U.S. nuclear technology is one of this nation's most valuable secrets, and it should have been protected.
- I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.
- When you think of what Americans accomplished, building these amazing cities and all the good it's done in the world, it's kind of disheartening to hear so much hatred of America, not just from abroad, but internally.