If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
James Madison (1751-1836)