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" I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations."
~James Madison

"Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression."
~James Madison

“The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.”
~James Madison

“The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.”
~James Madison

“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny”
~James Madison

"I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man."
~George Washington

"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. "
~George Washington

"It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliance with any portion of the foreign world."

GEORGE WASHINGTON, Farewell Address to the People of the United States