| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 37336 |
| QUOTATION: | Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the abuses of power. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | James Madison (17511836), U.S. president. The Federalist Papers, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, p. 330, ed. Clinton Rossiter, New York (1961). The Federalist, No. 53 (February 9, 1788). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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