Quote from James Madison 

"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."

Quote by:
James Madison
(1751-1836), Father of the Constitution for the USA, 4th US President
Source:
letter to Thomas Jefferson, May 13, 1798; reproduced in Jack N. Rakove (Ed.), James Madison: Writings (1999), p. 588.
 
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