“Would it promote the peace of the community, or the stability of government, to have half a dozen men who had had credit enough to be raised to the seat of the supreme magistracy, wandering among the people like discontented ghosts, and sighing for a place which they were destined never more to possess?”

– From Federalist No. 72, perhaps wrongly arguing against presidential term limits but correctly predicting the coming atrocity that will be Ex-President Barack Obama.