“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
“Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt.
(They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea.)”
― The Odes of Horace
(They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea.)”
― The Odes of Horace
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