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In very large assemblies passion always overpowers reason
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- James Madison American statesman (1751 to 1836)
In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever character composed, passion never fails to wrest the sceptre from reason. Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.
Our restatementFederalist No. 55 is one of the papers (Nos. 49 to 58) whose authorship Hamilton and Madison both claimed; the scholarly consensus, and this Gutenberg text, credit it to Madison.
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↗The Federalist Papers (1787-1788)gutenberg.org
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