In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by power. America has set the example, and France has followed it, of charters of power granted by liberty.
James Madison
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Having outlived so many of my contemporaries, I ought not to forget that I may be thought to have outlived myself.
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There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpation.
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