Chimerical Idea Quotes
- Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks-no form of government can render us… — James Madison
- To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea. — James Madison
- That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others. — James Thomson