"[P]ower, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse."
— Power

January 1, 1970

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James Madison, speech in the Virginia Constitutional Convention, 2 December 1829, as quoted in The Writings of James Madison: 1819-1836 (1910), ed. Galliard Hunt, p. 361