James Madison Quotes The number, the industry, and the morality

• The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
• The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
• The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad.
• The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
• The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.

                                                                                                                                 James Madison