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James Madison

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

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"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."

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"Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die."

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"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."

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"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."

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"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."

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"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."

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"I teach that all men are mad."

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"The man is either mad, or he is making verses."

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"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."

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"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."

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"Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms."
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"A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both."
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"The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad."
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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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"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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