James Madison

The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.

The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

I've played farce on the stage, but I have never played any sort of comedy on the screen.

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.