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Founder's Quotes

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“The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the state governments are numerous and indefinite.”

“The powers of the federal government are enumerated; it can only operate in certain cases. The state governments possess inherent advantages, which will ever give them an influence and ascendency over the national government.”

James Madison

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“It is wiser, I believe, to limit and abridge the exercise of powers which may endanger the security of liberty, than to risk the liberties of the people.”

John Jay

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“A Republic,

if you can keep it.”

Benjamin Franklin

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“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.”

Thomas Paine

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“The powers of the federal government are enumerated; it can only operate in certain cases. The state governments possess inherent advantages, which will ever give them an influence and ascendency over the national government.”

George Mason

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“The dread and redoubtable sovereign, when traced to his ultimate and genuine source has been found, as he ought to have been found, in the free and independent man.”

“To this truth, so simple and natural, and yet so neglected or despised, may be appreciated as the first and fundamental principle in the science of government.”

James Wilson

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“It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.”

Samuel Adams

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