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  • “Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. ”
    George Washington , Diary Entry · View
  • “Faction is the enemy of liberty because it seeks power without principle. ”
    Gouverneur Morris , Convention Notes · View
  • “There is no power above them, to control any of their decisions Men placed in this situation will generally soon feel themselves independent of heaven itself. ”
    Robert Yates (Brutus) , Brutus. Essay XV, 20 Mar 1788. · View
  • “All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree. ”
    James Madison , Constitutional Convention Notes · View
  • “Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the abuses of power. ”
    Alexander Hamilton , Federalist Papers No. 1 · View
  • “Power, when unchecked, soon becomes oppression. ”
    Mercy Otis Warren , History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution · View