Top 5 quotes from James Madison
- "The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home."
- "If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."
- "I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on the objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents."
- "You give me a credit to which I have no claim in calling me 'the writer of the Constitution of the United States.' This was not, like the fabled Goddess of Wisdom, the offspring of a single brain. It ought to be regarded as the work of many heads and many hands."
Top 5 quotes from Government, Knowledge
- "One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing."
- "Information is not knowledge."
- "I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."
- "There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance."
- "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."
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"A popular Government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives." - Copy to Clipboard
-- James Madison
-- James Madison
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