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James Madison QuotesThese James Madison Quotes are taken from his own writings, letters and speeches. Madison is known as the Father of the US Constitution and was one of the great leaders after the Revolutionary War. These James Madison Quotes are listed chronologically with links to more at the bottom.
You can read some interesting Facts about James Madison here. James Madison Quotes"Can it be of less consequence that the meaning of a Constitution should be fixed and known, than a meaning of a law should be so?" - Letter to Mr. Ingersoll, June 25, 1831"If the States cannot live together in harmony under the auspices of such a Government as exists, and in the midst of blessings such as have been the fruits of it, what is the prospect threatened by an abolition of a common government, with all the rivalships, collisions, and animosities inseparable from such an event?" - Letter to Mathew Carey, July 27, 1831 "Extreme cases of oppression justify... a resort to the original right of resistance, a right belonging to every community, under every form of Government..." - Letter to N. P. Trist, December, 1831 "Another error has been in ascribing to the intention of the Convention which formed the Constitution an undue ascendancy in expounding it. Apart from the difficulty of verifying that intention, it is clear, that if the meaning of the Constitution is to be sought out of itself, it is not in the proceedings of the body that proposed it, but in those of the State Conventions, which gave it all the validity and authority which it possesses." - Letter to N. P. Trist, December, 1831 "In contemplating the pecuniary resources needed for the removal of such a number to so great a distance (that is, of freed slaves to Africa), my thoughts and hopes have long been turned to the rich fund presented in the western lands of the nation..." - Letter to R. R. Gurley, December 28, 1831 "Allowance... ought to be made for a habit in Mr. Jefferson, as in others of great genius, of expressing in strong and round terms impressions of the moment." - Letter to N. P. Trist, May, 1832 "In the Virginia resolutions and reports the plural number, States, is in every instance used... As I am now known to have drawn these documents, I may say... that the distinction was intentional... The Kentucky resolutions, being less guarded, have been more easily perverted." - Letter to N. P. Trist, December 23, 1832 "In the Papal System, Government and Religion are in a manner consolidated, & that is found to be the worst of Govts. In most of the Govts. of the old world, the legal establishment of a particular religion and without or with very little toleration of others makes a part of the Political and Civil organization and there are few of the most enlightened judges who will maintain that the system has been favorable either to Religion or to Govt." - Letter to Jasper Adams, 1833 "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." - Letter to William Cogswell, March 10, 1834 "(The Constitution of the United States) 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." - Letter to Rev. William Cogswell, March 10, 1834 "Theories are the offspring of the closet; exceptions and qualifications are the lessons of experience." - Letter to Charles J. Ingersoll, December 30, 1835 Need some more James Madison
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