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The essence of government is power, and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. - James Madison Attribution: James Madison (1751–1836), U.S. president. Speech at the Virginia Convention, 1829. The Mind of the Founder: Sources of the Political Thought of James Madison, p. 512, ed. Marvin Meyers, Indianapolis (1973).

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