James Madison

“ But what is the lesson? that because the people may betray themselves they ought to give themselves up, blindfold, to those who have an interest in betraying them? Rather conclude that the people ought to be enlightened to be awakened; to be united, that after establishing a government they should watch over it as well as obey it. ”

“ Anti-Republican.—The science of the stars can never instruct you in the mysteries of government. Wonderful as it may seem, the more you increase the attractive force of power, the more you enlarge the sphere of liberty; the more you make government independent and hostile towards the people, tho better security you provide for their rights and interests. ”

“ Anti-Republican.—The people are stupid, suspicious, licentious. They cannot safely trust themselves. When they have established government they should think of nothing but obedience, leaving the care of their liberties to their wiser rulers. ”

“ Hence the wisdom of the theory, which, after limiting the share of the people to a third of the government, and lessening tho influence of that share by the mode and term of delegating it, establishes two grand hereditary orders, with feelings, habits, interests, and prerogatives, all inveterately hostile to the rights and interests of the people, yet, by a mysterwus operation, all combining to fortify the people in both. ”

“ Republican.—Although all men are born free, and all nations might be so, yet, too true it is that slavery has been the general lot of the human race. Ignorant, they have been cheated; asleep, they have been surprised ”