Founder’s Quote

“If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people, whose creature it is, […]

“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” —John Adams (1798)

“It is a principle incorporated into the settled policy of America, that as peace is better than war, war is better than tribute.” —James Madison (1816)

“Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one.” —James Madison (1791)