James Madison

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

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.

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

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.

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