Words To Live By, And Words To Ponder (For The New Year).

"The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse."

-- James Madison, speech in the Virginia constitutional convention, 1829


Where the whole power of the government is in the hands of the people, there is the less pretense for the use of violent remedies in partial or occasional distempers of the State. The natural cure for an ill administration in a popular or representative constitution is a change of men.

-- Alexander Hamilton, Federalist Paper #21