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
- Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
- A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
- All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
- The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
- The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
- Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.
- To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
- A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
- Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
- The happy Union of these States is a wonder their Constitution a miracle their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
Best Quotes
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.
- The truth does not require a majority to prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The truth is its own power. The truth will out. Never forget that.
- Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home.
- Everyone can write, but not everyone can be a poet.
- If I designed a computer with 200 chips, I tried to design it with 150. And then I would try to design it with 100. I just tried to find every trick I could in life to design things real tiny.
- I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.
- You go back to those films of the '40s and '50s and hear the dialogue, the way the people played off each other - the wordplay. I think we've really lost that in movies.
- We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future men of discernment deal only with the present moment.
- Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people.
- Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.