The essence of Government is power and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
Quote by James Madison
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The essence of Government is power and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
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James Madison Quotes
- Knowledge will forever govern ignorance and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
- The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
- 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.
- Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
- And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
- In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
- The essence of Government is power and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
- The happy Union of these States is a wonder their Constitution a miracle their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
- The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
- A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
Best Quotes
- Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we're scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don't have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own 'to do' list.
- Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
- I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.
- Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
- The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals but most people stuff themselves like cattle.
- Freedom and democracy are dreams you never give up.
- So after the Lewinsky scandal, everything changed, and we moved from using the Bible to address the moral issues of our time, which were social, to moral issues of our time that were very personal. I have continued that relationship up until the present.
- Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'
- Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.
- That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.