First Founding Father Quotes

“The human mind is too apt to rush from one extreme to another. -- Richard Henry Lee”
― Harlow Giles Unger, First Founding Father: Richard Henry Lee and the Call to Independence

“And to Virginia governor Edmund Randolph, who also favored a bill of rights, he explained, “The human race is too apt to rush from one extreme to another.… For now, the cry is power; give Congress power, without reflecting that every free nation that hath ever existed has lost its liberty by the same rash impatience and want of necessary caution.”
― Harlow Giles Unger, First Founding Father: Richard Henry Lee and the Call to Independence