Logo
Quote by James Madison
A popular government without popular information or the means of a

A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both. – James Madison

Other quotes by James Madison

A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country. – James Madison

Category:
best
Author
James Madison
Read Quote

If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason. – James Madison

Category:
Truth
Author
James Madison
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Government
category

Id rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University. – William F. Buckley, Jr.

Category:
Government

A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves. – Grover Cleveland

Category:
Government

In the book I define conservatism, as I believe it is fit upon four categories of principle: respect for The Constitution, respect for life, less government, and personal responsibility. – Jonathan Krohn

Category:
Government

If it is wrong for you to take money from someone else who earned it, to take their money by force for your own needs, then it is certainly just as wrong for you to demand that the government step forward and do this dirty work for you. – Neal Boortz

Category:
Government

Random Quotes

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it. – W.H. Auden

Category:
Poetry

Any man who does not accept the conditions of human life sells his soul. – Charles Baudelaire

Category:
Rejection

Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime. – Jacob Bronowski

Category:
Society

When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others. – Peace Pilgrim

Category:
Peace