"[Y]ou will understand the game behind the curtain too well not to perceive the old trick of turning every contingency into a resource for accumulating force in the government." | by: | James Madison (1751-1836), Father of the Constitution for the USA, 4th US President |
Source: | letter to Thomas Jefferson, March 14, 1794
http://books.google.com/books?id=w9l2AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA7 |
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