Founder’s Quote

“The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex.” —James Madison (1788)

“How much more do they deserve our reverence and praise, whose lives are devoted to the formation of institutions, which, when they and their children are […]

“We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth — and listen to the song of that syren, till she transforms us into beasts. […]

“Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a […]