"Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men, without a consequent loss of liberty! I say that the loss of that dearest privilege has ever followed, with absolute certainty, every such mad attempt." - Patrick Henry
“ . . .it would be a dangerous delusion were a confidence in the men of our choice to silence our fears . . . let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution." - Thomas Jefferson
“ . . . democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.” - James Madison
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