Send a Quote Enter a brief message. SendOk2 “Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.” ~ James Madison (1751-1836), Father of the Constitution for the USA, 4th US PresidentSource: letter to Thomas Jefferson, May 13, 1798; reproduced in Jack N. Rakove (Ed.), James Madison: Writings (1999), p. 588.