The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
Quote by James Madison
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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James Madison Quotes
- Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
- The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
- The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.
- 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.
- To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
- A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
- The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.
- Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
- The essence of Government is power and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
- 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.
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