Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.

— James Madison

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

— James Madison

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

— James Madison

Liberty is to faction what air is to fire...

— James Madison

Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.

— James Madison

Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the abuses of power.

— James Madison

Measures are too often decided, not accord­ing to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority.

— James Madison

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

— James Madison

Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

— James Madison

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

— James Madison