History
The Institute was founded in Tallahassee, Florida in 1987 by Dr. J. Stanley Marshall, a former President of the Florida State University The Institute is named after James Madison, the fourth President of the United States, Third Secretary of State, Author of the U.S. Constitution and co-author of the Federalist Papers. Notable contributions to the institute have been made by former Governor Jeb Bush.
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“In history an additional result is commonly produced by human actions beyond that which they aim at and obtain—that which they immediately recognize and desire. They gratify their own interest; but something further is thereby accomplished, latent in the actions in question, though not present to their consciousness, and not included in their design.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)
“I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called History is. How many times must we say Rome, and Paris, and Constantinople! What does Rome know of rat and lizard? What are Olympiads and Consulates to these neighboring systems of being? Nay, what food or experience or succor have they for the Esquimaux seal-hunter, or the Kanaka in his canoe, for the fisherman, the stevedore, the porter?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)