#is

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. ↗

— James Madison

#control #difficulty #enable #first #framing

The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#doubts #his #own #questions #story

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

#comprises #develops #dreaded #every #germ

I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property. ↗

— James Madison

#aspect #assumes #classes #doubt #favor

As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed. ↗

— James Madison

#different #different opinions #exercise #fallible #formed

A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person. ↗

— James Madison

#administer #assemble #citizens #consisting #democracy

Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere. ↗

— James Madison

#anywhere #darkness #despotism #done #everywhere

Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad. ↗

— James Madison

#against #charged #danger #home #liberty

What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed? ↗

— James Madison

#before #branch #commerce #executed #fortunes

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors. ↗

— James Madison

#betray #calculate #every #every nation #loss