"No political truth is certainly of greater intrinsic value, or is stamped with the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty than that on which the objection is founded. The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." | by: | James Madison
(1751-1836), Father of the Constitution for the USA, 4th US President |
Source: | Federalist No. 48, February 1, 1788 |
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