Words of Freedom

May 25, 2011

James Madison on Framing A Government

Filed under: James Madison — arwendt @ 9:55 am
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A few days ago, while reading an article on health care reform, I came across this great quote from James Madison.

In these Words of Freedom you can see the foresight our founding father had and perhaps a glimpse of their fear of the future.

“In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.” ~ James Madison

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    Comment by patriotsoul — January 5, 2012 @ 5:43 pm | Reply

  2. You can’t be quoting Madison– You’ll scare the “stuff” out of politicians from both sides of the asile

    Comment by Grumpy — January 10, 2012 @ 10:37 am | Reply


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