Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I am the happiest person I've ever met. This is what Buddhist Yoga and a healthy dose of reading the Declaration of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied;… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“As James Madison put it in Federalist No. 40, “The choice must always be made, if not one of the lesser evil,… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
The protection of these faculties is the first object of government. — James Madison Copy Share Image
The Internet's distinct configuration may have facilitated anonymous threats, copyright infringement, and cyberattacks, but it has also kindled the flame of freedom… — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share Image
The apportionment of taxes on the various descriptions of property is an act which seems to require the most exact impartiality; yet… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.... Notwithstanding the military establishments… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is the right… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The Founders understood that democracy was important, but if you didn't filter it through a republican system you'd be just as likely… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
Because we hold it for 'a fundamental and undeniable truth', that religion or 'the duty which we owe to our Creator' and… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. To be more safe, [nations] at length become willing to… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
In time of actual war, great discretionary powers are constantly given to the Executive Magistrate. Constant apprehension of War, has the same… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Because finally, 'the equal right of every citizen to the free exercise of his religion according to the dictates of conscience' is… — James Madison Copy Share Image
What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? — James Madison Copy Share Image
The Second Amendment, like the rest of the Bill of Rights, was meant to inhibit only the federal government, not the states.… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man; and we see them everywhere brought into different degrees… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Extend the sphere and you take in a greater variety of parties and interests; you make it less probable that a majority… — James Madison Copy Share Image
But ambitious encroachments of the federal government, on the authority of the State governments, would not excite the opposition of a single… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It is of great importance in a republic, not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers; but to… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The vigour of government is essential to the security of liberty. . . . a dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Who does not see that . . . the same authority which can force a citizen to contribute three pence only of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Let Americans disdain to be the instruments of European greatness! Let the thirteen States, bound together in a strict and indissoluble Union,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
