{"author":"James Madison","author_id":"James+Madison","total_quotes":70,"quotes":[{"text":"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.","author":"James Madison","tags":["information","tragedy "],"id":1632,"author_id":"James+Madison"},{"text":"The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.","author":"James Madison","tags":["circulation","confidence","money"],"id":2644,"author_id":"James+Madison"},{"text":"The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.","author":"James Madison","tags":["war","government","security "],"id":2853,"author_id":"James+Madison"},{"text":"Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.... During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in laity; in both, superstition, bigotry, and persecution.","author":"James Madison","tags":["christianity","freedom","president","religion"],"id":5970,"author_id":"James+Madison"},{"text":"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.","author":"James Madison","tags":["ity","constitution","freedom-of-speech","freedom-of-thought","politics"],"id":19527,"author_id":"James+Madison"},{"text":"Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.","author":"James Madison","tags":["journey","world","me "],"id":20520,"author_id":"James+Madison"},{"text":"Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.","author":"James Madison","tags":["parents","youth","talents "],"id":23241,"author_id":"James+Madison"},{"text":"What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?","author":"James Madison","tags":["support","liberty","mutual "],"id":30315,"author_id":"James+Madison"},{"text":"A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.","author":"James Madison","tags":["bill-of-rights","constitution","freedom","right-to-bear-arms","second-amendment"],"id":44281,"author_id":"James+Madison"},{"text":"A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.","author":"James Madison","tags":["body","free","people "],"id":46784,"author_id":"James+Madison"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":70,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}