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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 790
AUTHOR: James Madison (1751–1836)
QUOTATION: The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.
ATTRIBUTION: JAMES MADISON, The Federalist, ed. Benjamin F. Wright, no. 47, p. 336 (1961).
SUBJECTS: Government—separation of powers