I'm a federalist.

I'm a federalist. I believe in the Italy of municipalities, of the Renaissance, not in Mussolini's centralization.

— Matteo Salvini

A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government. A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government…

— Alexander Hamilton

The goal of the World Federalists is peace through unity of government. We must support their vision of oneness in diversity, for it is…

— Jean Stapleton

So strong is this propensity of mankind to fall into mutual animosities, that where no substantial occasion presents itself, the most frivolous and fanciful…

— James Madison

Conscience is the most sacred of all property; other property depending in part on positive law, the exercise of that being a natural and…

— James Madison

The Federalist Society has done more for the health of the law than any organization I have witnessed in my career.

— Robert Bork

But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have been called by different names brethren of the same principle. We…

— Thomas Jefferson

Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the…

— James Madison

There is really quite an inherent danger in the traditional British view that the council of ministers and inter-governmentalism is your protection against the…

— Gisela Stuart

Obama is now fighting for his life. He's fighting for a federal government. I believe in a federal government. I hope it sticks around.…

— Oliver Stone

“Western democracies did not create the virtue of citizenship; on the contrary, they grew from it. Nothing is more evident in The Federalist than…

— Roger Scruton

The Federalist was one of the only publications to consistently express skepticism toward the Resistance's conspiracy theory that Donald Trump was a traitor who…

— Mollie Hemingway

I am proud to say that the Federalist Society was founded in part at the University of Chicago, and one of its best characteristics…

— Cass Sunstein

[In the case of] dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the states, who are parties thereto, have the right,…

— James Madison

What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?…

— Thomas Jefferson