612 Quotes by James Madison

[N]o religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.

Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.

The religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is the right of every man to exercise it as these may dictate.

No power over the freedom of religion [is] delegated to the United States by the Constitution.

In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights.

Freedom arises from a multiplicity of sects, which pervades America, and is the best and only security for religious liberty in America.

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

There is an evil which ought to be guarded against in the indefinite accumulation of property from the capacity of holding it in perpetuity by...corporations. The power of all corporations ought to be limited in this respect. The growing wealth acquired by them never fails to be a source of abuses.

Among the features peculiar to the political system of the United States, is the perfect equality of rights which it secures to every religious sect.