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.

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

The Internet is allowing us to get back to what's really more natural, which is that storytelling is a shared thing. It's our natural way to be communal.

There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because, to some degree, I projected upon it.