Tag: James Madison

Our Constitution represents the work of the finger of Almighty God.

James Madison

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.

James Madison

Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.

James Madison

Americans need not fear the federal government because they enjoy the advantage of being armed, which you possess over the people of almost every other nation.

James Madison

We have staked the whole future of our new nation, not upon the power of government; far from it. We have staked the future of all our political constitutions upon the capacity of each of ourselves to govern ourselves according to the moral principles of the Ten Commandments.

James Madison

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

James Madison

If our nation is ever taken over, it will be taken over from within.

James Madison

The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded.

James Madison

Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace.

James Madison