Church Quote by James Madison

Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which…

— Thomas Jefferson

A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind…

— Mercy Otis Warren

Its authors meant it to be... a stumbling block to those who in after times might seek to turn a free people back into…

— Abraham Lincoln

“This necessity, like a gravitating power, would soon form our newly arrived emigrants into society, the reciprocal blessing of which, would supersede, and render…

— Thomas Paine

Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere…

— Henry Cabot Lodge

May our land be a land of liberty, the seat of virtue, the asylum of the oppressed, a name and a praise in the…

— Joseph Warren

“On the other hand, it will be equally forgotten that the vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty; that, in the…

— Alexander Hamilton

[Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw off, it…

— Thomas Jefferson

We now occupy the proud attitude of a sovereign and independent Republic, which will impose upon us the obligation of evincing to the world…

— Sam Houston

Instead of that liberty which takes root and growth in the progress of reason, if recovered by mere force or accident, it becomes with…

— Thomas Jefferson

To subject every private family to the odious visits and examination of the tax-gatherers ... would be altogether inconsistent with liberty.

— Adam Smith

“A dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people than under the forbidden appearance of…

— Alexander Hamilton