Madison

Cited as Madison. — 7 quotations

Abuse

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

Depart

If the plan of the convention be found to depart from republican principles.

Disease

The instability, injustice, and confusion introduced into the public counsels have, in truth, been the mortal diseases under which popular governments have every where perished.

Invoice

Goods, wares, and merchandise imported from Norway, and invoiced in the current dollar of Norway.

Mob

Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.

Purview

In determining the extent of information required in the exercise of a particular authority, recourse must be had to the objects within the purview of that authority.

Respectable

No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected, without being truly respectable.