James Madison Quotes About Peace

Quotes about: Peace

• Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace.

  James Madison

  Strength, Peace, Army

• A people armed and free, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition and is a bulwark for the nation against foreign invasion and domestic oppression.

  James Madison

  Strength, Peace, Ambition

• The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested in war, and most prone to it.

  James Madison

  Peace, War, Government

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.43, University of Virginia Press

• The power to declare war, including the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature.

  James Madison

  Peace, War, Judging

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1852). “The Federalist: On the New Constitution, Written in 1788”, p.451

• War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

  James Madison

  Peace, War, Government

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

• The strongest passions and most dangerous weaknesses of the human breast; ambition, avarice, vanity, the honorable or venal love of fame, are all in conspiracy against the desire and duty of peace.

  James Madison

  Peace, War, Passion

  "The Cost of America's Secret Wars, Then and Now" by Charles P. Pierce, www.esquire.com. December 6, 2011.

• Were it possible so to accelerate the intercourse between every part of the globe that all its inhabitants could be united under the superintending authority of an ecumenical Council, how great a portion of human evils would be avoided.

  James Madison

  Peace, Evil, Would Be

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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