More From James Madison
- "All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree."
- "The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted."
- "The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad."
More In Government
- "No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men."― Thomas Carlyle
- "I used to forget that I was an Indian woman. I would even forget that I was a woman. I don’t think of myself as bringing to the table a lot of ‘women’s issues.’ I don’t feel the need to write about maternity. I grew up thinking that the talented people in comedy were hard-joke writers."― Mindy Kaling
- "A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible."― Woodrow Wilson