James Madison
James Madison
James Madison, Jr.was a political theorist, American statesman, and the fourth President of the United States. He is hailed as the "Father of the Constitution" for his pivotal role in drafting and promoting the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionUS President
Date of Birth16 March 1751
CityPort Conway, VA
CountryUnited States of America
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Landholders ought to have a share in the government to support these invaluable interests and check the other many. They ought to be so constituted as to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority.
presidential debt curse
A public debt is a public curse.
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Whilst the last members were signing it Doctr. Franklin looking towards the Presidents chair, at the back of which a rising sun happened to be painted, observed to a few members near him, that Painters had found it difficult to distinguish in their art a rising from a setting sun.
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The President is responsible to the public for the conduct of the person he has nominated and appointed.
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I do not conceive that power is given to the President and Senate to dismember the empire, or to alienate any great, essential right. I do not think the whole legislative authority have this power. The exercise of the power must be consistent with the object of the delegation.
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A President is impeachable if he attempts to subvert the Constitution.
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, or to publish their sentiments; and the freedom of the press, as one of the great bulwarks of liberty, shall be inviolable.
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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The problem to be solved is, not what form of government is perfect, but which of the forms is least imperfect.
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the abuses of power.
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Of all the enemies of public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded.
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The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad.
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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.