"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."
― James Madison
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Power
― James Madison
More From James Madison
- "It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood."
- "Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government."
- "The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money."
More In Power
- "When I lost my friends, it was because I had used the power of giving on them recklessly. I swept into their lives with my big fat checkbook, and I erased years of obstacles for them overnight – but sometimes, in the process, I also accidentally erased years of dignity."― Elizabeth Gilbert
- "Every time you don’t follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness."― Shakti Gawain
- "There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly."― Noam Chomsky