James Madison actually said...

Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression.

Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires.

It is in vain to say that enlightened statesmen will be able to adjust these clashing interests, and render them all subservient to the publ...

The diversity in the faculties of men from which the rights of property originate is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of int...