لكنّ الصوت الهادئ للعقل، حين يدافع عن مصلحةٍ واسعة دائمة، كثيرًا ما يغرقه، في المجالس العامة كما في نفوس الأفراد، صخبُ الشَّره العجول إلى كسبٍ عاجلٍ مفرِط.

“But the mild voice of reason, pleading the cause of an enlarged and permanent interest, is but too often drowned, before public bodies as well as individuals, by the clamors of an impatient avidity for immediate and immoderate gain.”James Madison — The Federalist, on the new constitution, written in 1788, with an appendix, containing the letters of Pacificus and Helvidius on the proclamation of neutrality of 1793, also the original articles of confederation and the constitution of the United States (1852)