Security against foreign danger is one of the primitive objects of civil society. It is an avowed and essential object of the American Union.
James MadisonThe advice nearest to my heart and deepest in my convictions is that the Union of the States be cherished and perpetuated.
James MadisonIt is a misfortune, inseparable from human affairs, that public measures are rarely investigated with that spirit of moderation which is essential to a just estimate of their real tendency to advance or obstruct the public good; and that this spirit is more apt to be diminished than prompted, by those occasions which require an unusual exercise of it.
James Madison