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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 739
AUTHOR: James Madison (1751–1836)
QUOTATION: If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.
ATTRIBUTION: JAMES MADISON, The Federalist, ed. Benjamin F. Wright, no. 51, p. 356 (1961).
SUBJECTS: Government