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
- To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
- What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.
- I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
- Knowledge will forever govern ignorance and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
- I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.
- Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
- If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.
- Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
- The essence of Government is power and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
- A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
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