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“The means of defence agst. foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.”
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“The advancement of science and the diffusion of information [is] the best aliment to true liberty.”
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“There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.”
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“Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression. In our Governments, the real power lies in the majority of the Community, and the invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from the acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents, but from acts in which the Government is the mere instrument of the major number of the constituents.”
― Letters and Other Writings of James Madison Volume 3
― Letters and Other Writings of James Madison Volume 3
“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”
― Federalist Papers
― Federalist Papers
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