Federalist Quotes

I'm a federalist.

— Matteo Salvini

...[V]igor of government is essential to the security of liberty...

— Alexander Hamilton

Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.

— James Madison

Conscience is the most sacred of all property.

— James Madison

An elective despotism was not the government we fought for.

— Thomas Jefferson

...We are all Federalists,and we are all Republicans.

— Thomas Jefferson

In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights.

— James Madison

Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society.

— James Madison

The Federalists also used bribes, intimidation, and fraud against opponents of the Constitution.

— Michael Parenti

“In politics [Francis Marion] was a moderate federalist; such as were many great revolutionary characters.”

— William Dobein James

The Federalist Society has made important contributions to the nation's understanding of our constitutional heritage.

— Dick Cheney

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

— Robert Bork

“through the transcript. Some colleagues, at least, found the whole exercise droll. Fisher Ames, a Federalist”

— Michael Waldman

Every day, we publish articles at 'The Federalist' with which I disagree.

— Ben Domenech

Democracy is an experimental system. I like it when states try out new ideas. I think we ought to expand, not contract,…

— Alex Tabarrok

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

— James Madison

The purpose of the Federalist Society was to bring together young people who had this skepticism about what they were being taught…

— Antonin Scalia

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

— Jean Stapleton

I want to commend the [Federalist] Society for bringing together the best minds from right, left, and center to debate the most…

— Samuel Alito

The whole basis of the Constitution was a restriction of power, and the whole basis of the federalist system was that there…

— Roy Moore

It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage...Before any man can be considered as a member…

— James Madison

Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. To be more safe, [nations] at length become willing to…

— Alexander Hamilton

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

— Oliver Stone

“Jefferson advised him: “I am not a Federalist, because I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of…

— Dan Sisson

The American people were, in the beginning, Revolutionaries and Tories. The American people ever since have been Revolutionaries and Tories. They have…

— Saul Alinsky

Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ…

— James Madison

As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.…

— James Madison

“James Madison made clear in Federalist 51 that that this elaborate structure—today often derided as “ gridlock ”—was created to protect individual…

— Anonymous

In time of actual war, great discretionary powers are constantly given to the Executive Magistrate. Constant apprehension of War, has the same…

— James Madison

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

— James Madison

While a truly national third party wouldn't necessarily be bad, smaller niche parties are ill-suited to our federalist system.

— William M. Daley

To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms...

— Richard Henry Lee

A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.

— James Madison

The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex.

— James Madison

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?

— James Madison

Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression.

— James Madison

I tend to be a kind of left federalist. There's a value to more power of certain kinds being positioned at a…

— Zephyr Teachout

I think that decisions should rest in the hands of the states. I'm a federalist.

— John McCain

Armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few.

— James Madison

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

— Matteo Salvini