More From James Madison
- "The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money."
- "The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived."
- "Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives."
More In Government
- "Attending that Convention and talking with those people and many others convinced me that I should become a blogger in my efforts to reform the government and uphold the integrity of the Constitution and the laws made in furtherance thereof."― John Jay Hooker
- "I’m interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day."― Dave Eggers
- "There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive."― Tony Campolo