Quote by James Madison
Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will gener

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done. – James Madison

Other quotes by James Madison

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. – James Madison

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War
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The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. – James Madison

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Trust
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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. – James Madison

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Government
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Other Quotes from
power
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Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People. – Benjamin Disraeli

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power

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs. – Andrew Carnegie

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power

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

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power

The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because thats what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment. – Craig T. Nelson

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power

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I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant. – Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night

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Im not out burning bras, but Im very opinionated about women owning their power. – Katherine Heigl

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power

As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking. – William Godwin

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I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night. – Henry Ford

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