James Madison

"A wise and frugal government is the best government."

"The political opinions of the people constitute the foundation of public policy."

"Where there is knowledge, there is power."

"The future depends on what we do in the present."

"All tyrannies rule through fraud and force once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force."

"The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one."

"Protect the rights and liberties of the people in each state."

"The multiplicity of sects which pervades America is the best and only security for religious liberty."

"A people armed and free, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition."

"The deliberate exercise of ill-considered power is a more formidable evil than the rash exercise of it."

"When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty."

"The influence of character runs through every affair of government."

"True religion abhors coercion."

"The success of republican government rests upon the intelligence of the people."

"The great desideratum is to establish a universal system of education."

"All the experience of mankind shows that republics are ungrateful."

"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts."

"The accumulation of power tends toward tyranny."

"Religious freedom is the parent of good morals."

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."