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> Madison said the same thing

Interesting, I didn't know that. I looked it up, and I really liked this Madison quote:

> In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever characters composed, passion never fails to wrest the scepter from reason. Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.

(from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalist_No._55)



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