James Madison Quotations Ambition must be made to counteract ambition

• Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
• America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
• Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
• And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
• Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.

                                                                                                                                                                  James Madison