James Madison: U.S. Constitution author, or 18th Century psychic?

Here are a number of oddly prescient quotes from one of the founders of this nation, and a relative of Dolly, the maker of Zingers®, Donut Gems, Angel Food and Pound Cakes.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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.
The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad.
The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
All men having power ought to be mistrusted.
If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.