"To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea."
― James Madison
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Government
― James Madison
More From James Madison
- "War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason."
- "The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy."
- "The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government."
More In Government
- "Music is more difficult – try naming a political band. The Dead Kennedys. The Dead Kennedys are political, but they are more funny than they are political."― Thom Yorke
- "Let the people think they govern and they will be governed."― William Penn
- "I used to forget that I was an Indian woman. I would even forget that I was a woman. I don’t think of myself as bringing to the table a lot of ‘women’s issues.’ I don’t feel the need to write about maternity. I grew up thinking that the talented people in comedy were hard-joke writers."― Mindy Kaling