The proposed Constitution is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution; but a composition of both. – James Madison
The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted. – James Madison
No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare. – James Madison
The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy. – James Madison
The words of the Constitution are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior decisions that they leave the individual Justice free, if indeed they do not compel him, to gather meaning not from reading the Constitution but from reading life. – Felix Frankfurter