Best quotes by James Madison on Power

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• ‟ Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

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• ‟ Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

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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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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

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