Rights Abuses

Famous quotes containing the words rights and/or abuses:

“In our governments the real power lies in the majority of the community, and the invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from the acts of government contrary to the sense of the constituents, but from the acts in which government is the mere instrument of the majority.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)

“Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the abuses of power.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)