I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse and in a republican government more than in any other.
James MadisonRead
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.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Immigration has been crucial to America's growth and success.
James Madison emphasizes the vital role that immigration has played in shaping America, attributing the nation's settlement and prosperity to the contributions of immigrants. He suggests that areas in America which welcomed immigrants have thrived in various aspects such as population growth, agriculture, and cultural developments, highlighting the interconnectedness of immigration and national advancement.
Themes
ImmigrationProsperityGrowthSettlementDiversity
In practice
Example use cases
In speeches about cultural diversity, one might quote Madison to emphasize the importance of immigration.
More from James Madison
All quotes βNo man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause; because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity. With equal, nay with greater reason, a body of men are unfit to be both judges and parties at the same time.
James MadisonRead
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; but, on a candid examination of history, we shall find that turbulence, violence, and abuse of power, by the majority trampling on the rights of the minority, have produced factions and commotions, which, in republics, have, more frequently than any other cause, produced despotism.
James MadisonRead
The advice nearest to my heart and deepest in my convictions is that the Union of the States be cherished and perpetuated.
James MadisonRead
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
James MadisonRead
The magnitude of this evil among us is so deeply felt, and so universally acknowledged, that no merit could be greater than that of devising a satisfactory remedy for it.
James MadisonRead
Similar quotes
Just by my home is an entrance to the sewers they used in the Warsaw uprising. I grew up knowing people died down there. Warsaw was once a battleground; then it became a morgue. It's a city littered with ghosts. And that never left me.
Pawel PawlikowskiRead
We came here to a country that was populated by Arabs and we are building here a Hebrew, a Jewish state; instead of the Arab villages, Jewish villages were established. You even do not know the names of those villages, and I do not blame you because these villages no longer exist. There is not a single Jewish settlement that was not established in the place of a former Arab Village.
Moshe DayanRead
I grew up in the shadow of the Trujillato, saw how the regime had ravaged so many families.
Junot DiazRead
In retrospect, the political and cultural climate in the early '60s seems both a time of innocence and also like a sultry, still summer day in the Midwest: an unsettling calm before a ferocious storm over Vietnam, which was not yet an American war.
Tom BrokawRead
Black history is a series of missing chapters from British history. I'm trying to put those bits back in.
David OlusogaRead
No history is mute. No matter how much they own it, break it, and lie about it, human history refuses to shut its mouth. Despite deafness and ignorance, the time that was continues to tick inside the time that is.
Eduardo GaleanoRead